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Generative AI for Finance & Accounting Productivity

Generative AI is transforming finance and accounting by enabling professionals to automate routine tasks, accelerate analysis, and improve decision-making

Overview

AI

This practical one-day workshop introduces leading AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and NotebookLM, demonstrating how they can be applied across reporting, financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, reconciliations, and financial communications.

Through hands-on exercises and real-world case studies, participants will learn how to build effective AI-assisted workflows, create high-quality financial outputs in less time, and apply prompt engineering techniques to improve accuracy and productivity. The programme also covers AI governance, risk management, and best practices for responsible AI adoption in finance functions.

Objectives

  • Equip finance and accounting professionals with practical skills in Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, NotebookLM, and AI-powered finance solutions.
  • Demonstrate how AI can automate reporting, analysis, reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting, and financial communication.
  • Enable participants to improve productivity, reduce manual effort, and enhance decision-making through AI-assisted workflows.
  • Provide hands-on experience through real finance and accounting case studies, exercises, and prompt engineering techniques.

Outline

  • Generative AI for Finance & Accounting
    • Understanding ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini & Notebook LM
    • AI opportunities across Finance, FP&A, Accounting, Audit & Shared Services
  •  AI-Powered Reporting & Financial Analysis
    • Generate management reports and financial commentary in minutes
    • Automate variance analysis and KPI explanations
    • Convert financial data into executive summaries and board-ready insights

Hands-On Exercises

  • AI for Budgeting, Forecasting & FP&A
    • AI-assisted forecasting and scenario modelling
    • Revenue, cost, and cash flow analysis using AI
    • Developing strategic recommendations

Hands-On Exercise: Build forecasting narratives and business recommendations using ChatGPT and Claude

  • AI Productivity for Accountants & Finance Teams
    • Automating reconciliations, journal reviews, and month-end reporting
    • Drafting finance emails, policies, SOPs, and audit responses
    • Extracting insights from Excel files, PDFs, and financial statements

Hands-On Exercise: Automate common finance tasks using Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT

  • AI for Risk Management, Audit & Compliance
    • AI-assisted fraud detection and anomaly identification
    • Reviewing contracts, policies, and financial documents with AI

Case Study: Real-world examples of AI adoption in finance and accounting functions

  • Prompt Engineering for Finance Professionals
    • Writing effective prompts for finance and accounting scenarios
    • Building reusable prompt libraries for reporting, forecasting, audit, and analysis
    • Best practices to improve AI accuracy and reliability

Hands-On Exercise: Develop your personal Finance AI Prompts

  • AI Governance & Future of Finance
    • AI risks, ethics, governance, and data security
    • Responsible use of AI in financial environments

Divya Arora

Divya is a thorough professional and has 13 years of work experience and have core skills in field of Business Intelligence, Management reporting and analytics. She is excellent in her oration and has been responsible for training her teams and stakeholders in areas of Advanced Excel techniques, mastering the art of giving presentations, Business Intelligence, Dash boarding and visual presentations in alignment with organisation goals.

She has varied experience working with big giants like Glaxo Smith Kline, ABN AMRO and Max Life Insurance and various training institutes in India and Singapore.

Divya has worked across different industries like healthcare, consumer and insurance. She has been a key player in working across transition projects, transformation journey’s, new process set ups, data warehousing and Enterprise wide deployment of new Business Intelligence tools

Divya has been a key contributor to Quality and service excellence and is certified Green Belt Six Sigma professional. 

CPD units

Attendance to this session will accord you with 7 CPD units (ACRA Category 5).

A CPD certificate will be sent to you by email within 2 business days after your attendance to this online workshop.

Requirements

Stable internet access to use online LLM platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)

Standard office productivity software such as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets for hands-on exercises

Access to a free or paid LLM account (for Copilot, Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT)

Price

Member 270 SGD

Affiliate 280 SGD

Approved employer 340 SGD

Student 280 SGD

Public 385 SGD

Location

Singapore

Date & time

11 September 2026, 09:00 - 17:00 Singapore

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