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Free AI courses for accounting and finance with certificate

Free courses for accountants, chartered accountants and finance teams: ChatGPT, Claude and Excel with Copilot applied to reconciliations, analysis, reporting and forecasting models, plus the payment frauds aimed at finance teams.

27 modules · 10h 45m of video · Updated 1 November 2026
AI for Accountants and CAs: ChatGPT, Claude and Excel for Real Accounting Work course coverFree
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AI for Accountants and CAs: ChatGPT, Claude and Excel for Real Accounting Work

Free course for accountants: ChatGPT, Claude and Excel for reconciliations, macros and research, keeping client data safe. The certificate is optional and paid.

  • Set up an AI assistant safely for accounting work
  • Write finance prompts that name the rules, the format and your check
  • Speed up bank reconciliations and clear every exception yourself
9 modules 3h 41mView course
Excel with Copilot and AI for Finance and FP&A course coverFree
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Excel with Copilot and AI for Finance and FP&A

Put AI to work in Excel for finance: Copilot in Excel and its agent mode, what the retired =COPILOT function taught, cleaning data with Power Query, Python in Excel, testing Copilot against Claude and ChatGPT on the same spreadsheet, and building forecasts, dashboards and board commentary without losing control of the numbers.

  • Use Copilot in Excel on a clean table and check every formula it writes
  • Classify and summarise text with Copilot, and know why to keep AI away from reported figures
  • Clean messy exports with Power Query so next month is one refresh
9 modules 4h 50mView course
Cyber Fraud and Security for Finance Teams course coverFree
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Cyber Fraud and Security for Finance Teams

Stop the frauds aimed at finance teams: business email compromise, vendor bank-change and invoice fraud, fictitious vendors, the Arup deepfake video call, accounts payable controls that work, scam messages, passwords and MFA, data breach response, and audits, third parties and agreements.

  • Explain business email compromise and recognise its forms
  • Verify vendor bank-detail changes independently
  • Detect invoice fraud and fictitious vendors with simple analytics
9 modules 2h 14mView course

Compare the AI for accounting and finance courses

CourseLevelModulesVideoBrand
AI for Accountants and CAs: ChatGPT, Claude and Excel for Real Accounting WorkBeginner93h 41mVendor-neutral
Excel with Copilot and AI for Finance and FP&ABeginner94h 50mVendor-neutral
Cyber Fraud and Security for Finance TeamsBeginner92h 14mVendor-neutral

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How to choose

Accountants and auditors should start with AI for Accountants, which covers reconciliations, working papers, tax research and review with AI, and where its answers must be checked.

Analysts and FP&A teams who live in Excel should take Excel with Copilot and AI for Finance, built around formulas, Power Query, models and variance analysis.

Cyber Fraud for Finance Teams is not an AI course, but it belongs here: business email compromise, vendor bank-change fraud and deepfake payment requests land on the same desks.

Questions

Do I need Microsoft Copilot?
The Excel course uses Copilot in Excel. The accountants' course also works with ChatGPT and Claude.
Will AI do my accounting for me?
No. It drafts and checks; you review the result and remain accountable for it.
Is it free, and is there a certificate?
Every lesson, note and assessment is free. The EDWartens certificate is optional and paid, and you can finish without it.