Master ChatGPT to create compliant accounting policy manuals; streamline workflows, boost efficiency, and become a strategic policy leader.
This course provides a concise overview of how accountants can use ChatGPT and other AI platforms to accelerate policy manual development, strengthen risk management, and elevate their strategic influence within organizations. Leveraging a five-level AI integration framework, learners are guided from simple prompting to advanced multimodal policy creation, integrating ethics, compliance, auditability, and cutting-edge visual and audio tools. Participants explore how to create CPA-compliant manuals using prompt engineering, generative AI ecosystems, and deep learning research methods.
The course also addresses real-world challenges such as AI hallucinations, regulatory drift, version control, cybersecurity, and bias mitigation—equipping accountants with the skills to lead responsibly in the AI era.
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This course is designed for CPAs, controllers, internal auditors, and accounting leaders who are responsible for policy development and want to harness AI to create more effective, compliant, and future-ready internal control systems.

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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