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AI for Accountants, Bookkeepers, and Tax Preparers
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What Will Students Learn?
- Apply AI tools effectively in accounting and bookkeeping workflows
- Automate transaction categorization, reconciliation, and document extraction
- Use AI for tax research, planning, and return review with proper verification
- Create financial analysis, cash-flow forecasts, KPI dashboards, and client reports
- Improve practice management, client communication, and workflow efficiency with AI
- Identify AI risks, protect client data, and develop responsible AI policies
Materials Included
- Course video lessons
- AI accounting workflow examples
- Accounting and bookkeeping prompts
- Tax research and verification exercises
- Client communication and email templates
- Engagement letter and proposal templates
- AI practice management workflows
- AI risk and cybersecurity guidelines
- Sample client file for capstone project
- AI-enabled accounting workflow exercises
Requirements/Instructions
- Basic understanding of accounting or bookkeeping
- Basic familiarity with financial statements and tax concepts
- Access to a computer and internet connection
- Willingness to practice AI tools and accounting workflows
- Students should verify AI-generated financial and tax information
- Maintain client confidentiality when working with AI tools
Target Audience
- CPAs and professional accountants
- Bookkeepers
- Tax preparers
- Accounting and finance professionals
- Accounting firm owners and managers
- Advisory and financial reporting professionals
Course Content
- AI capabilities and limits for accounting workPreview
- Tool landscape (general AI, QuickBooks AI, tax research tools)Preview
- Professional ethics: AICPA standards and Circular 230Preview
- Client confidentiality, IRC §7216, and data securityPreview
- Prompting for accounting accuracyPreview
- Verification: never trusting AI numbers blindlyPreview
- AI in Accounting: Capabilities, Ethics, Prompting & VerificationPreview
- AI in Accounting — Professional Practice & VerificationPreview
- Transaction categorization and reconciliationPreview
- Document extraction from receipts and statementsPreview
- Month-end close checklistsPreview
- Anomaly and error detectionPreview
- Accounts payable and receivable workflowsPreview
- Payroll and sales tax support tasksPreview
- Bookkeeping AutomationPreview
- Bookkeeping AutomationPreview
- Tax research with AI and citation checkingPreview
- Client intake and organizer automationPreview
- Planning scenarios and estimated tax analysisPreview
- Business entity and deduction analysisPreview
- Reviewing returns for errorsPreview
- Responding to IRS notices (drafting support)Preview
- Tax Preparation and ResearchPreview
- Tax Preparation and ResearchPreview
- Financial statement analysis and commentaryPreview
- Cash-flow forecasting and budgetingPreview
- KPI dashboards for clientsPreview
- Client-ready reports and presentationsPreview
- Pricing advisory and profitability analysisPreview
- Packaging advisory as a premium servicePreview
- AI for Advisory and ReportingPreview
- AI for Advisory and ReportingPreview
- Client communication and email templatesPreview
- Engagement letters and proposalsPreview
- Workflow and deadline trackingPreview
- Staff training and SOPsPreview
- Marketing your practice with AIPreview
- Busy season capacity planningPreview
- AI for Accounting Practice ManagementPreview
- AI for Accounting Practice ManagementPreview
- Audit trails and documenting AI usePreview
- Hallucination risks in tax and accountingPreview
- Cybersecurity and AI vendor due diligencePreview
- Firm AI policy developmentPreview
- Preparing for regulator and client questionsPreview
- Capstone: AI-enabled workflow for a sample client filePreview
- Risk, Audit, and CapstonePreview
- AI Risk Management, Audit Documentation, and Accounting WorkflowPreview
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