Live Stream: Artificial Intelligence for Accounting and Finance Professionals
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Description
Accounting and finance professionals have used different forms of automation over the years to improve the efficiency and accuracy of their work. So far, technology has not been able to replace the knowledge, experience and decision making of seasoned professionals. Times are rapidly changing. Today, systems easily exceed humans in accuracy and consistency. Artificial intelligence (AI) brings opportunities for accountants and finance professionals in the short term to improve efficiency and accuracy, while providing more value for businesses and customers alike. In the long term, AI will offer profound changes to how professionals work and process data. This course is designed to review where we are and where we are headed in the world of AI.
Credits
| Number of Credits | Type of Credits |
|---|---|
| 2.00 | Information Technology |
Designed For
Accounting and finance professionals seeking to understand the role of artificial intelligence today and in the future
Highlights
- What is artificial intelligence?
- What are the different forms of artificial intelligence?
- The difference between artificial intelligence and machine learning
- The types of problems artificial intelligence can solve
- The role of algorithms
- How artificial intelligence will affect accounting and finance careers
- Data governance, security and privacy
- How accounting firms are using AI today
- The role of artificial intelligence in asset management
Objectives
- Be familiar with the fundamentals of artificial intelligence
- Recognize the different types of artificial intelligence in use today
- Understand how artificial intelligence will change the accounting and finance professions
- Be able to explain data security and privacy best practices
Prices
- Member (Early Bird)
- $95.00
- Non-Member (Early Bird)
- $125.00
- Member
- $95.00
- Non-Member
- $125.00
Instructors
Lydia C. Stutesman
Lydia Stutesman is a college-level course teacher at Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy High School and University Preparatory in Southwest Ranches, FL, where she teaches Business Entrepreneurship Honors, Personal Finance Honors, TV Production, Communications and Broadcast Journalism, and is the Associate Director of Alumni Relations.
Before joining the education system, Mrs. Stutesman had a successful career in healthcare revenue cycle management, holding positions such as Corporate Training Manager, Operations Manager, and Accounts Receivable Special Projects Director for a large pharmacy benefit management and durable medical supply company serving over three million customers.
Mrs. Stutesman’s management roles included teams responsible for writing and updating all training documents and manuals, creating and facilitating course curriculum, and managing departments and groups of 50-200 team members and supervisors. Mrs. Stutesman was also responsible for maintaining corporate training compliance for over 700 employees in Florida and Virginia as well as updating all Sarbanes-Oxley controls and key controls for the revenue cycle management department.
Mrs. Stutesman’s training experience dates back to 1994 when she served as a retail trainer for a Fortune 500 company. With over 28 years of facilitating, creating and updating educational content via a blended learning solution, Mrs. Stutesman is an accomplished and highly engaging speaker and presenter in the topics of healthcare revenue cycle management, fraud and abuse prevention, corporate compliance, financial planning, organizational leadership, business management, marketing, entrepreneurship, and many other financial topics of interest in today’s diverse and growing virtual climate.
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