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AI 101: Overview, Basics, and Use Cases From an Accounting Perspective

AI 101: OVERVIEW, BASICS, AND USE CASES FROM AN ACCOUNTING PERSPECTIVE

CPE Processing Fee$30.00
Webinar TranscriptionN/A
Presentation Length Hour(s)1.0 hour
CPE Credits 1.0 hour
Subject Area 1.0 - Information Technology
CE Credits 0.0 hours
Course LevelBasic
Instructional MethodQAS Self-Study
PrerequisitesNone
Advance PreparationNone
Recorded DateFebruary 17, 2025
Date OfferedMarch 20, 2025
Expiration DateMarch 20, 2026
Course Description

This webinar will introduce attendees to the evolving impact of AI and large language models on the accounting profession. Our presenter will explore AI's vast capabilities in automating tasks, enhancing fraud detection, improving financial forecasting, and redefining auditing and compliance practices. Attendees will learn how generative and predictive AI systems work and their practical applications within accounting firms. The session emphasizes ethical considerations, regulatory impacts, and strategies for leveraging AI to drive productivity and value in accounting and will contain use cases and real-world examples to demonstrate various approaches.

Learning Objectives:


  • Recognize the transformative role of AI in automating accounting tasks and improving decision-making processes

  • List generative and predictive AI technologies and their applications in financial analysis and fraud detection



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Download any course document(s) (below) which may include handouts, glossary, transcripts, etc. Follow any prompts contained in the documents to help you complete the course. Most documents are searchable.

Play the recording, noting the sectional guides indicating where topics on the agenda are covered and the prompts to pause video playback to respond to a review question (located below the video playback area). The timestamps for review questions are also noted below.

Upon completing the video and successfully answering all review questions, you will then take the final exam.

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QUESTION 2: 0:30:42 minutes
QUESTION 3: 0:57:12 minutes
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Herb Rubenstein is the President of Herb Rubenstein Consulting. He is the co-author of Breakthrough, Inc.: High Growth Strategies for Entrepreneurial Organizations (Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 1999). In addition, he was the lead author of  Leadership Development for Educators (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009), and the author of Leadership for Lawyers, 2ed. (American Bar Association, 2008).  He has published over 200 articles and 200 videos on business strategy, entrepreneurship, leadership, boards of directors, and improving how organizations function and deliver value which can be read and viewed at www.herbrubenstein.com.  

He taught the Capstone Course at the University of Colorado’s Graduate School of Business in the Global Energy Management.  That course was titled “Strategic Management” and he also taught the course “The Future of Energy” in London and “The Future of Energy Regulation” in Washington, DC for UC Denver.  He also served as an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Planning at George Washington University and has been an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurism at George Mason University and Colorado State University.

He has his law degree from Georgetown University, his Master of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs, a graduate degree in sociology from the University of Bristol in Bristol, England, and a Phi Beta Kappa/Omicron Delta Kappa graduate from Washington and Lee University in 1974.  At the age of 67, Herb Rubenstein became a Class A Member of the PGA (2020) and now sits on two Board of Directors Committees – DEI and Places to Play.  He passed the player’s ability test (PAT) at the age of 65 and started the largest PGA Junior League in America exclusively for scholarship kids in Brooklyn in 2016 when he became interested in expanding the game of golf to all children in America, girls and women, minorities and low-income people globally.  He has taught online for almost thirty years.

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