AI Finance: Build Your Automated Reconciliation Tool - Part 2 of 3 (Video) (Course Id 2930)

• Who is this course for?
  This course is for accountants, controllers, auditors, finance managers, fractional CFOs, CPAs, and others needing CPE who want to use AI to build and operate a browser-based balance sheet reconciliation tool without requiring coding or IT skills.
• What is this course about or what problem does this course solve?
  This course teaches participants how to turn an initial AI-built reconciliation application into a more complete tool with filtering, sorting, transaction matching, match groups, color-coded statuses, custom lines, issue-resolution workflows, exports and imports, and recurring reconciliation processes, reducing the slow and error-prone manual work traditionally performed in Excel.
• Where can the knowledge from this course be used?
  The knowledge can be used in finance and accounting workflows to reconcile accounts with or without subledgers, manage journals and opening balances, track and resolve reconciliation issues, tie accounts to the trial balance, and customize reconciliation processes for a company's accounts and working practices.
• Why is this course important to a CPA or Accountant?
  This course is important to a CPA or Accountant because balance sheet reconciliations are a key finance control, and the AI-enabled workflows taught in the course can reduce hours of repetitive reconciliation work to minutes while allowing more time for reviewing, investigating, and clearing outstanding items.
• When is this course relevant or timely?
  This course is relevant when preparing recurring balance sheet reconciliations during monthly, weekly, or daily processes, particularly when finance professionals want to replace repetitive Excel-based tasks with an AI-built tool while following data-privacy rules, company policies, and safe practices.
• How is a course like this consumed or used?
  This is a 3.5-CPE-credit QAS Self Study video course with 27 pages, 11 review questions, 7 guided exercises, fictitious practice data, and a Prompt Library, and participants must pass the 18-question final exam with a score of at least 70% to receive CPE credit.

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 2/3

This is where you'll turn your first working version into a complete tool: filters, sorting, matching, groups, color-coded statuses, custom lines, exports and imports, and the recurring process.

Course Learning Objectives

After completing this course, participants will be able to: