Full-Day Classroom Seminar
AI for Finance & Accounts
Reduce Reporting Time, Improve Accuracy & Automate Repetitive Finance Work
Trusted by finance & accounts teams at India's leading organisations · Held in Mumbai, Delhi & Bangalore
The Programme
Programme Overview
Introduction
Course Overview
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming the finance function—from MIS reporting and reconciliations to forecasting, compliance monitoring, and management decision-making. Finance managers are now expected to work faster, analyse larger volumes of data, generate sharper insights, and support leadership with real-time business intelligence.
This highly practical workshop is designed specifically for finance & accounts professionals to help them understand how AI tools can automate repetitive work, improve accuracy, accelerate reporting cycles, and enhance financial analysis—without requiring any technical or programming background.
The programme focuses on practical business use cases, live demonstrations, AI-powered Excel workflows, reporting automation, financial analytics, and prompt-driven decision support tools relevant to modern finance teams.
AI in Finance & Accounts
- AI, Generative AI, Machine Learning & Business AI
- How AI is transforming modern finance departments globally
- AI opportunities in Accounts Payable, Receivable, MIS, Audit, Taxation & FP&A
- Identifying repetitive finance activities suitable for automation
- Understanding AI risks: confidentiality, data privacy, hallucinations & financial accuracy
- Building an AI-ready mindset for finance managers and teams
Outcomes
What You Will Learn
Participants will learn how to:
- Understand the role of AI in modern finance functions
- Automate MIS reporting and repetitive finance activities
- Use AI with Excel and Power BI for faster analysis
- Improve forecasting, budgeting, and profitability analysis
- Generate management summaries and board-level insights
- Enhance compliance and audit preparedness
- Automate finance workflows using no-code AI tools
- Leverage AI safely while managing confidentiality and data risks
Methodology
How We Teach
This workshop is highly practical and demonstration-driven.
Learning methodology includes:
- Live AI tool demonstrations
- Finance-specific business use cases
- Excel and reporting automation exercises
- Prompt engineering for finance professionals
- AI-assisted financial analysis scenarios
- Compliance and audit workflow examples
- Hands-on reporting and dashboard creation activities
Participants leave with practical AI workflows that can immediately be implemented in finance operations.
The Outcome
Impact & Audience
For the Organization
Organizational Impact
Organizations that adopt AI within finance functions can improve efficiency, strengthen controls, and accelerate decision-making.
This workshop helps organizations to:
- Reduce manual reporting effort
- Improve reporting accuracy and consistency
- Accelerate month-end closing activities
- Enhance forecasting and financial planning
- Improve compliance documentation and audit readiness
- Increase productivity across finance teams
- Enable data-driven decision-making
For the Individual
Personal Impact
For finance professionals, AI literacy is rapidly becoming a critical skill for career growth and leadership readiness.
Participants will be able to:
- Work faster and more efficiently
- Build stronger analytical capabilities
- Generate executive-ready financial insights
- Improve reporting and dashboard creation skills
- Strengthen strategic decision-support capabilities
- Become future-ready finance professionals
Audience
Who Should Attend
This workshop is ideal for:
- Finance Managers
- Accounts Managers
- Controllers & Finance Heads
- MIS Professionals
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Teams
- Audit & Compliance Professionals
- Cost Accountants
- Chartered Accountants
- Business Finance Teams
Curriculum
Course Outline
- Session 1: AI in Finance & Accounts
- Understanding AI’s Role in Finance
- AI, Generative AI, Machine Learning & Business AI
- How AI is transforming modern finance functions
- Opportunities across Accounts Payable, Receivable, MIS, Audit, Taxation & FP&A
- Identifying repetitive activities suitable for automation
- Understanding AI risks and governance considerations
- Building an AI-ready mindset within finance teams
- Practical Examples
- AI-generated MIS summaries
- AI-driven variance analysis
- AI-assisted month-end closing support
- Auto-drafting finance emails and management notes
- Tools Covered
- ChatGPT
- Claude AI
- Gemini AI
- Perplexity AI
- Session 2: AI with Excel, MIS & Financial Reporting
- Automating Reporting & Analysis
- Cleaning and analyzing large Excel datasets using AI
- AI-assisted formulas, PivotTables, lookups, and dashboards
- Automating recurring MIS reports
- AI-driven trend analysis and forecasting
- Dashboard creation using AI support
- Faster reconciliations and anomaly detection
- Practical Examples
- AI-generated monthly MIS reports
- Budget vs Actual variance analysis
- Automated ageing analysis
- Expense trend identification
- Duplicate transaction detection
- Tools Covered
- Microsoft Excel Copilot
- Power BI
- ChatGPT
- Google Sheets AI Features
- Session 3: AI for Financial Analysis, Forecasting & Decision Support
- Strategic Finance with AI
- AI-powered budgeting and forecasting
- Scenario analysis and predictive modelling
- Profitability and cost analysis
- Working capital and cash flow monitoring
- Board-level financial summaries
- Strategic decision support using AI
- Practical Examples
- Cash flow forecasting models
- Product profitability analysis
- Collection risk prediction
- AI-generated CFO summaries
- What-if pricing and cost simulations
- Tools Covered
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Claude AI
- NotebookLM
- Session 4: AI for Compliance, Productivity & Finance Automation
- Finance Process Automation
- AI-based invoice processing and extraction
- GST, TDS, and compliance workflow support
- Drafting SOPs, policies, and finance communications
- No-code workflow automation
- Audit preparation and compliance documentation
- Future trends: Autonomous finance operations and AI agents
- Practical Examples
- Invoice data extraction from PDFs
- AI-generated audit checklists
- Vendor reconciliation automation
- Compliance documentation generation
- Tools Covered
- Zapier AI
- Make.com
- Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant
- Docparser
Faculty & Inclusions
Your Trainer
Faculty
Instructors
Programs are delivered by experienced professionals specializing in Finance Transformation, AI Applications in Finance, Financial Analytics, MIS Reporting, Power BI, Business Intelligence, and Process Automation.
What's Included
Certificates & Inclusions
Participants will receive:
- Certificate of Course Completion
- AI for Finance reference guide
- Prompt library for finance professionals
- Finance automation workflow templates
- MIS and reporting examples
- Practical AI use-case handbook
- Lunch and tea/coffee (for classroom participants)
Registration
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Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
No. This workshop is specifically designed for finance professionals and requires no coding or technical background.
Yes. The workshop includes real-world examples covering MIS reporting, forecasting, reconciliations, variance analysis, cash flow forecasting, compliance workflows, and audit preparation.
Participants will experience tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Excel Copilot, Power BI, Tableau, NotebookLM, Zapier AI, Make.com, and Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant.
Yes. AI can assist with invoice extraction, audit checklists, compliance documentation, reconciliations, and workflow automation while maintaining appropriate controls.
Yes. Princeton Academy offers customized in-house AI for Finance programs aligned to organizational reporting structures, ERP systems, compliance requirements, and business processes.
