AI Finance: Build Your Automated Reconciliation Tool - Part 1 of 3 (Video) (Course Id 2929)

Balance sheet reconciliations are one of the most important controls in finance – and one of the most painful to prepare. Every month-end brings the same manual routine in Excel: import journals, pull the trial balance, rebuild tables, insert prior open items, add subtotals, and match line by line, all while hoping no formula breaks. It is slow, error-prone, and leaves little time for the review that actually matters.

This course shows you a completely different way. Using AI and "vibe coding," you will build your own modern, browser-based reconciliation tool – no coding or IT skills are needed. You simply send plain-language prompts to any AI you already use, and the AI builds the tool for you. In five clear steps and under two hours, you go from a blank page to a robust, working application that does in a few clicks what used to take hours.

Through this practical, step-by-step program, you will learn to:

• Build the tool from scratch with AI: Analyse your source data, draft the master prompt, generate Version 1, and refine it through simple prompt-and-test iterations.
• Reconcile any account: Handle accounts with or without a subledger, opening balances and movements.
• Add workflows Excel cannot offer: Various filters, sorting groups and items together, transaction matching, match groups, color-coded statuses, and issues tracked all the way to resolution.
• Reconcile as often as you need: Run the process monthly, weekly, or daily — export and re-import your work, protect prior entries, add only new journals, and tie out to the trial balance.
• Customize it and apply best practice: Tailor the tool to your company, accounts, and personal style, and build in proven reconciliation best practice as you go.
• Use AI safely: Apply data-privacy rules, company policy, and safe practices before you ever touch real company data.

You will also receive a complete Prompt Library with ready-to-use prompts, 16 variants, and 41 troubleshooting FAQ answers, plus fictitious practice data and 7 guided exercises covering various accounts and realistic issues.

Whether you are an accountant, controller, auditor, finance manager, or fractional CFO, this course changes how you work: hours become minutes, most of the effort shifts up front, and you walk into every close with an already clean balance sheet – spending your time reviewing and clearing items instead of crunching them.

This is Part 1/3

This is where you'll build the foundation: understand AI "vibe coding," analyse your source data, and go from a blank page to a working Version 1.

Course Learning Objectives

After completing this course, participants will be able to: