Introduction to AI for Accountants
What AI is, and what it can and cannot do in accounting work, in non-technical language.
Course contents
- 1What AI is and its types
- 2How language models work
- 3What the tools do well and where they go wrong
- 4Examples from accounting work
- 5A first hands-on exercise
- 6A first look at how an accountant can build a simple program with AI assistance
What you gain from the course
You understand AI well enough to use it in your work and judge its results.
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