Empower your retail business with AI. Master financial strategies, optimize operations, and gain a competitive edge in today's dynamic marketplace.
This course provides a concise overview of how artificial intelligence is transforming financial strategies, tax compliance, and auditing practices across the retail sector. Participants will explore 20 big-picture AI trends reshaping retail, from hyper-personalized marketing and dynamic pricing to supply chain automation and omnichannel integration.
The program examines advanced applications in real-time SKU-level margin analysis, AI-powered lease accounting, inventory costing optimization, tax nexus monitoring, and fraud detection. Special attention is given to “Black Ledger” impacts—subtle, algorithm-driven shifts in recognition, valuation, and compliance that only seasoned accounting professionals anticipate. Through practical strategies and governance frameworks, attendees will learn how to implement AI responsibly, ensuring ethical, transparent, and regulation-ready deployment that strengthens financial insight and competitive positioning.
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Who Will Benefit/Target Audience:Retail accountants, auditors, finance leaders, and technology strategists seeking to harness AI for stronger financial performance and compliance.
Prerequisite Knowledge:Familiarity with retail accounting principles and basic AI concepts is recommended.
MA, CMC, CITP/FITP
GARRETT WASNY, MA, CMC, CITP/FITP, is an artificial intelligence (AI) skills advisor to accountants, tax attorneys, enrolled agents, and tax preparers worldwide. His courses focus on the new intersection of accounting and technology, and provide guidance to practitioners on how to prosper in this dynamic age. His sessions demystify emerging cloud, mobile, and social applications, and explain in plain language how financial professionals can use these online tools to build trust, solve problems, and create new value. He’s also an award-winning Internet speaker, author, app developer, professional development specialist, and former management consultant for Price Waterhouse. He's published 50+ ebooks on computing and ethical issues related to accounting, written hundreds of articles and columns on Internet strategy, and delivered thousands of seminars and webinars to CPAs and accounting organizations around the globe.
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