Master the art of AI-driven productivity while building the essential guardrails to protect your firm’s integrity.
This is part 1 in our series on Generative AI.
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping finance and accounting by accelerating analysis, supporting research, improving reporting workflows, and expanding access to data-driven insights. Generative AI is a subset of artificial intelligence designed to create new, original content—such as text, images, code, or audio—by learning patterns, structures, and nuances from vast datasets.
Recent professional and regulatory commentary highlights the need for strong governance, human oversight, data protection, and quality controls. Finance teams are exploring how these tools can assist with drafting narratives, summarizing technical guidance, analyzing transactions, supporting close and reporting activities, and enhancing audit and compliance processes.
The course examines key risks such as hallucinations, confidentiality concerns, bias, weak documentation, and overreliance on AI-generated output, along with governance practices needed to support responsible adoption.
By the end of the course, participants will be better prepared to evaluate generative AI opportunities, design appropriate guardrails, and apply professional judgment when using AI in finance and accounting environments. Participants will explore real-world use cases across accounting, financial reporting, FP&A, tax, audit support, and controllership activities.
This course provides finance and accounting professionals with a practical understanding of how generative AI works, where it can create value, and where caution is required.
Lynn Fountain has over 45 years of experience spanning public accounting, corporate accounting and consulting. 24 years of her experience has been working in the areas of internal and external auditing. She is a subject matter expert in multiple fields including internal audit, ethics, fraud evaluations, Sarbanes-Oxley, enterprise risk management, governance, financial management and compliance. Ms. Fountain has held two Chief Audit Executive positions for international companies. In 2011, as the Chief Audit Executive for an international construction/ engineering firm, she was involved in the active investigation of a joint venture fraud. The investigation included work with the FBI and ultimately led to indictment of the perpetrators and recovery of $13M. Ms. Fountain is currently engaged in her own training and consulting business and is a regular trainer for the AICPA. Ms. Fountain is the author of three separate technical books. “Raise the Red Flag – The Internal Auditors Guide to Fraud Evaluations” was published by the Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation. -“Leading The Internal Audit Function” and -“Ethics and The Internal Auditor Political Dilemma” were published by Taylor & Francis In addition Ms. Fountain was a contributing author to the certification program exam for the National Association of Accountants. She also has certificate programs on various on-line platforms. Ms. Fountain has performed as an adjunct instructor for the School of Business for Grantham University and developed the first internal audit curriculum for the School of Business at the University of Kansas. Ms. Fountain obtained her BSBA from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from Washburn University in Kansas. She has her CGMA, CRMA credentials and CPA certificate (non-active).
