Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
This course explores the impact of generative AI on CPAs by mapping professional pain points to key capabilities in GenAI. It examines the recent history of AI, including the rise of IBM’s Jeopardy-dominating Watson, as well as the advent of large language models (LLMs). The course provides a balanced view of potential job impacts and unravels the implications of an "AI co-pilot" for CPAs. Prompts are organized to reflect these capabilities from a perspective of "task amplification," demonstrating how GenAI can provide value by reducing cognitive load, enabling delegation, and more. Attendees will have access to the prompt sheet after the session. Additionally, it will address issues related to ensuring confidentiality, verifying AI-generated responses, and preserving one’s voice in an AI-dominated world.
Topics Include:
- Exponential Change and AI: Explore core concepts of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), including their background and functionality.
- AI and Jobs: The impact of AI on the job market: address augmentation and replacement but propose that using generative AI is akin to outsourcing work or managing a junior employee.
- Practical Applications of AI for CPAs: how generative AI can be used for first drafting, communication, documentation, format transformations, summarization, brainstorming, and research.
- Key Challenges: Maintaining data confidentiality, verifying the output (which can be very wrong), and maintaining one’s authenticity when using AI to help with content generation.
- Look Ahead: Suggest strategies to thrive in an AI-enabled future (e.g. prompt engineering and related techniques).
Other Available Sessions
- Session for March 6 (2025) available here.
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, participants will:
- Understand the exponential pace of change that has taken place within the world of AI.
- Recognize how GenAI enhances productivity, shifting the focus from the analytics-driven approach of pre-GPT AI to a tool that helps CPAs get things done.
- Understand the risks of using Generative AI.
- Learn practical techniques on how to execute prompts on Generative AI platforms, i.e. able to structure queries and guide the Generative AI to the desired output.
- Recognize opportunities to use and apply GenAI.
Who Will Benefit
The course is beneficial to all CPAs, both from industry and audit. The course is built around the assumption that people have a non-technical background.
How to Access the Course
This course is a live webinar. You must attend the live course to receive verifiable CPD hours. We recommend you join five minutes prior to the scheduled starting time. To get the full experience of this interactive course, use a computer that has video and microphone capabilities.
Electronic material can be accessed one week prior to the course and should be downloaded in advance.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Malik Datardina, CPA, CA, CISA is the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Strategist for Auvenir. His two decades of experience encompasses audit innovation, audit data analytics (ADAs), risk and security governance. At Auvenir, Malik analyzes disruptive trends and technology like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and big data to build the audit platform of the future. He also wears the GRC hat, where he handles risk & compliance issues. Malik uses his wealth of knowledge in the innovation space to explore the impact of both innovation and exponential technologies on the profession and has authored professional publications on the topic.