You may already use AI to draft an email or answer a quick question. But if every conversation starts from scratch, you spend time repeating your role, your preferences, and the context behind your work. This hands-on course helps you set up Claude so it can give you more relevant, consistent responses from the start. Designed for accounting and finance professionals in public practice and industry, this one-hour course walks you through instructions, memory, projects, connectors, and privacy settings. You’ll decide what Claude should know across your work, what belongs in a specific client or team project, and how to limit access to sensitive information. You’ll leave with a foundation you can keep refining as you use AI for recurring tasks. Why attend? A thoughtful setup can save you from repeating the same instructions and help you use AI with greater confidence. You can follow along without a paid Claude account, although a paid account will let you practice more of the features demonstrated. Course outcomes: You’ll be able to set up Claude around your role and preferences, organize recurring work in a project, and make more deliberate choices about memory, connections, and privacy.
Course ID: CLAU1
Set It Up Like You Mean It: Make Claude Work for Your Finance Role
Learning Objectives
- Identify the Claude settings that influence responses, including instructions, model choice, and effort level.
- Distinguish among account instructions, project instructions, and task-specific guidance to select the appropriate place for a given requirement.
- Recognize how memory, incognito chats, projects, and connectors affect what Claude can access or recall.
- Select privacy and data settings appropriate for client and firm information.
Major Topics
- Personalizing Claude: Set instructions, choose settings, and give Claude the context it needs for your finance or accounting role.
- Organizing recurring work: Use projects and memory to keep relevant context available, and explore when connectors may help.
- Protecting information: Choose privacy settings and decide what client or firm information Claude should be allowed to access.
Advanced Preparations
None
Who Should Attend
Finance and accounting professionals who want to expand their skills with AI in general and Claude in particular
Fields of Study
Information TechnologyPrerequisites
None