AI for Financial Forecasting & Reporting

This lesson introduces how to use Excel Copilot to create an automated and controlled expense categorization system. You will learn to establish rules, validate them, and integrate human intervention to ensure accuracy.

In this lesson, you will learn how to use Google Sheets Gemini to create a future revenue forecast. You'll get familiar with core forecasting concepts, AI's role in this process, and learn how to build a transparent and reliable financial model.

In this lesson, you will learn how to use ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis to build a cash flow projection. You'll understand the difference between profit and cash, learn how to supply the AI with the necessary data, and interpret the forecast. You'll also cover advanced techniques such as stress tests and creating a decision log.

This lesson explores how to use Claude Projects for the centralized and efficient management of assumptions underlying financial models. You'll learn how to build a structured assumptions library, implement versioning, and ensure data accuracy when working with AI.

In this lesson, you will learn how to use artificial intelligence, specifically ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis, to perform P&L (profit and loss) variance analysis. You'll learn how to identify significant deviations from budget or forecast, create an explanatory narrative, and refine the AI-generated analysis with business context and fact-checking. Building on the assumptions library created in previous lessons, we now apply that knowledge to analyzing real financial data.

In this lesson, you will learn how to use Claude Artifacts to create a CFO memo from financial spreadsheets. You'll get familiar with the structure of an effective memo, crafting optimal prompts for AI, and critically evaluating and refining the AI-generated draft to produce a document ready for management.

In this lesson, you will learn how to use Power BI Copilot to plan the skeleton of a financial KPI Dashboard. The focus will be on clearly defining KPIs, verifying the data model, and ensuring the dashboard's effectiveness given the audience and use context.

This lesson explores using Tableau Pulse to get automated insights into changes in financial metrics. Students will learn how to verify AI-generated insights, ask follow-up questions, and turn them into actionable steps, ensuring data accuracy and effective financial management.

This lesson explores scenario planning as a core tool for financial forecasting. You will learn how to use Excel Copilot to create Base, Upside, and Downside scenarios, including detailed assumptions, sensitivity analysis, and trigger-based actions.

This lesson explores how to build a Forecast Accuracy Report using ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis. You will learn how to compare forecasts to actual data, identify systematic bias and errors, and use this information to improve your future forecasting models.

This lesson covers the importance of Accounts Receivable (AR) aging for cash flow and how an AI tool, Claude, can help analyze overdue invoices. You will learn how to create a collection priority list, draft follow-up communication texts, and make informed decisions with human oversight.

This lesson explores how ChatGPT can be used to standardize and analyze budget requests. You will learn how to convert requests in various formats into a unified, decision-ready brief with AI assistance, while keeping the human role in making the final decision.

This lesson covers how to build an accurate, concise, and decision-oriented board report pack using Claude Projects. You will explore AI's capabilities in generating drafts and the human's decisive role in data validation and shaping strategic reasoning.

This lesson covers the importance and practical aspects of creating an AI financial control checklist. You'll learn how to use Claude to create the checklist structure and Excel to manage it, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of financial data.

This lesson brings together all the AI tools and concepts learned in previous lessons into a single, repeatable financial workflow. You'll learn how to plan, implement, and improve an AI-based monthly reporting system that ensures accuracy, efficiency, and continuous improvement.