About this course

  • $50.00
  • 1 CPD hour
  • December 9, 2026 - 12:00 PM ET

Course description

AI provides us with the ability to rapidly polish our business writing. Using this technology, we can instantly find typos, make our drafts smoother, test our logic, identify ambiguity, and monitor our tone. However, due to the specialized nature of accounting and finance communication, when we use AI ineffectively, it has the reverse outcome—making our writing slower.
During this session, the instructor will comb through the prompting techniques (i.e., the instructions you give to AI) that will ensure you are harnessing AI’s power in a way that speeds up your writing rather than holds it back. A prime example of when AI can be counterproductive is when you ask it to make a document more concise. This request for concision often backfires because AI tends to remove important subtlety that it fails to recognize.

Key Takeaways:

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Craft prompts that instruct AI to assist with your writing as efficiently as possible.
  • Rely on AI to help you quickly detect the weaknesses of a draft, such as typos, faulty logic, ambiguity, impolite tone, and inconsistency.
  • Guard against the shortcomings of AI, including its verbosity, unrestrained scope, “desire to please”, and lack of human touch.
  • Experiment with the “minimalist approach to prompting” in order to achieve maximum efficiency, while recognizing when lengthier prompts are required to yield precise outputs.

    • Instructor(s)

    Ryan Standil

    Ryan Standil leads seminars about effective written communication. He is a regular speaker at accounting firms, law firms, corporations, and governmental agencies.

    Ryan attended Western University, in Canada, where he graduated from the Ivey Business School and the Faculty of Law. After graduating, Ryan worked at a law firm in Toronto, focusing on corporate and commercial matters.

    Today Ryan owns and operates a seminar company, called Write To Excite.

    Ryan’s mission is to help professionals grow their income by improving their writing.

    Ryan is a frequent contributor to the leading newspaper in Canada, The Globe and Mail. Unsurprisingly, his columns can be described as “writing about writing”.

    Ryan’s training leaves participants with practical tips that they can apply right away.