AI Finance Academy • Dr. John Aikeremiokha

AI Will Not Replace Finance Professionals.
Finance Professionals Who Use AI Well Will.

The practical, no-hype course that turns you from an AI spectator into the person your team turns to — in six modules, with your own measured results as proof.

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The Uncomfortable Truth

Right Now, Someone With Your Exact Job Title Is Getting Faster Than You. Every Single Week.

Not because they're smarter. Not because they work longer hours. But because they started using AI properly six months ago — and the gap between you and them compounds every quarter, quietly, like interest on a debt you didn't know you owed.


The trap most professionals fall into

They've "tried ChatGPT." Asked it a question or two, got a mediocre answer, and concluded AI is overhyped. What they actually discovered is that unstructured prompts produce unstructured results — and then they stopped one step before the skill that changes everything.

The opposite trap

Others trust AI completely — pasting its confident answers straight into reports. Here's what they don't know: AI can be confidently, fluently wrong, and its tone gives no warning at all. One unverified number in a board pack is all it takes to learn this lesson the expensive way.


This course exists for the third path: professionals who use AI to move dramatically faster — and verify everything, so their speed never costs them their credibility. That combination is rare. It is also completely learnable.

"More than 40% of routine finance work is automatable with the AI tools available today. Standing still isn't a neutral choice — while one team debates, another team is already doing it."
Why This Course Is Different

You Don't Watch This Course. You Do It — and You Measure It.

Most AI courses hand you theory and a certificate. This one hands you a spreadsheet with three overspends deliberately hidden inside it — and challenges you to make your AI find them. It sets traps that tempt your AI to invent data, so you catch it doing so before it ever happens with real numbers. And in the very first module, you time one of your own boring weekly tasks… then beat that time later with AI, and calculate your own personal saving. Your proof. Your number. Nobody can argue with it.

6
Video modules
132
Focused video lessons
24
Hands-on activities
100%
Practical — zero fluff
The Course Outline

Six Modules. One Transformation.

MODULE0

Introduction — Your Starting Line

7 lessons • 2 activities • ~30 min

Set up your AI toolkit and time one real task from your own job — the baseline you'll beat later with your own hands.

Tool setupPersonal baselineWhy AI matters now
MODULE1

AI Foundations — How AI Really Works (and How to Talk to It)

26 lessons • 5 activities • ~2 hrs

Why AI isn't a calculator, which of the four major AI tools fits which task, and the prompting frameworks — CSI, FBI, chunking, master prompts — that separate reliable output from guesswork.

CSI & FBI promptingChatGPT · Copilot · Gemini · ClaudeChunkingMaster promptsAudit everything
MODULE2

Data & Numbers — AI on Real Finance Work

33 lessons • 6 activities • ~3 hrs

The treasure hunt: find three overspends we planted in real sample data. Then AI-written Excel formulas, Power Query cleanup, financial ratios verified to the cent — and your first Python program, run in the browser with zero installation.

Variance analysisForecastingExcel + AIPower QueryPython in ColabDashboards
MODULE3

Prompt Engineering — Making AI Think Harder (and Argue Back)

22 lessons • 4 activities • ~1.5 hrs

Five magic words that make AI show its reasoning. Make AI improve your own prompts, attack your forecast before your boss does, and impersonate a full panel of tough reviewers — so no real meeting ever surprises you again.

Chain of thoughtMeta promptingDevil's advocatePanel simulation
MODULE4

Custom AI — Build Your Own AI Team Member

17 lessons • 3 activities • ~1.5 hrs

Build a custom assistant that knows your templates and follows your rules — then trap-test it to prove it refuses to invent data, stress-test it with 12 questions, and document its ownership like a professional.

Custom GPTs & GemsKnowledge basesThe trap testAI governance
MODULE5

The AI CFO — From Skills to Leadership

27 lessons • 4 activities • ~2 hrs

Assemble everything into a leadership plan: an honest maturity rating, KPIs with real measured baselines, a one-page AI policy drafted in 30 minutes, and a dated 30-day roadmap you share with a real person.

AI maturity modelKPIs with receiptsOne-page policy30-day roadmap

What You Walk Away With
  • Your own measured time saving — a before/after number from your real work, not a statistic from a slide
  • A tested custom AI assistant — with the test log and ownership register that prove it's trustworthy
  • A growing prompt library of proven, reusable master prompts
  • A drafted one-page AI policy ready to route for approval
  • A dated 30-day roadmap — shared, scheduled, and already in motion
  • The verification habit that protects your credibility for the rest of your career
Free Self-Assessment

Where Do You Actually Stand? Find Out in 3 Minutes.

Nine honest questions, drawn directly from the course curriculum. No email required, no tricks — answer truthfully and get an instant, personalised reading of where you are on the AI-in-finance journey, and exactly what your next step should be.

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Question 1 · Foundations

An AI tool gives you a confident, well-written answer containing several figures. What's your honest, usual next move?

Question 2 · Foundations

How do you typically write a prompt when you need something from an AI tool?

Question 3 · Foundations

Do you keep reusable "master prompts" for tasks you repeat every week or month?

Question 4 · Data & Numbers

A messy data export lands on your desk: duplicate rows, three date formats, missing values. What happens next?

Question 5 · Data & Numbers

Could you run a simple Python analysis on a transactions file — today, if asked?

Question 6 · Prompt Engineering

Before a forecast or proposal goes to leadership, how does it get stress-tested?

Question 7 · Custom AI

Have you ever built a custom AI assistant (a custom GPT or Gem) configured with your own instructions and documents?

Question 8 · Governance

Does your team (or you personally) have written rules for AI use — approved tools, forbidden data, a named contact?

Question 9 · Measurement

If your manager asked, "how much time is AI actually saving you?" — what could you honestly answer?

Please answer all 9 questions to get an accurate result.
Your Assessment Result

Where you are right now

Your real strengths

    What's quietly costing you

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      Six Months From Now, You'll Be One of Two People.

      The one still saying "I really should learn this properly" — or the one with a tested AI assistant, a measured time saving, a governance policy with their name on it, and a team that comes to them for answers. The course is the same six modules either way. The only variable is when you start.

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