Master ChatGPT for advanced accounting research: Unlock AI's power for faster, deeper insights and future-proof your accounting career.
This course provides a concise overview of how accountants can transform their research practices using ChatGPT and other cutting-edge AI tools. It explores the seismic shift from traditional search engines like Google to intelligent, conversational AI that not only retrieves information but collaborates, critiques, and generates high-level financial insights.
Participants will learn how to harness AI as a research co-pilot for analyzing standards, streamlining compliance, and automating financial reporting. The course introduces the concept of AI personas, prompt priming, and scheduled tasks, offering a roadmap for mastering AI-powered ecosystems like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Microsoft Copilot in the accounting domain.
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This course is ideal for accountants, auditors, and financial analysts seeking to elevate their research strategies with AI-powered tools and enhance their professional value in a rapidly changing digital landscape.

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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