Demystify AI Coding: Build a Useful Finance Tool Without Coding Experience

What if you could turn a recurring spreadsheet problem into a simple tool by describing what it should do? AI has made that possibility more accessible to accounting and finance professionals. This hands-on course shows you how Claude can help write and test code, even if you have never programmed. You’ll compare three ways to work with AI-generated code: ask for a formula or script, build a small artifact, or delegate a larger task to a coding agent. Through finance examples such as data cleansing, reconciliations, and Excel automation, you’ll identify a useful problem and build a simple tool from a plain-English specification. You’ll test it with known answers and learn the documentation, ownership, and review controls needed before an AI-built tool enters a finance process. Why attend? You’ll see what is possible without needing to become a developer, and learn how to judge whether a tool is ready to use. You’ll leave with a working example, a 30-day plan, and a completed personal AI operating model. You can follow along without a paid Claude account; a paid account lets you try more of the features demonstrated. Course outcomes: You’ll be able to spot finance tasks suited to AI coding, describe and test a simple tool, and identify the safeguards required before using it in practice.