This immersive education experience is designed for CPAs and accounting professionals, offering a cohort-style education with an interactive and hands-on approach to mastering AI in the context of accounting.
The curriculum is designed to meet each participant at their current level of AI knowledge, ensuring a personalized learning experience.
AI Foundations equips accounting professionals with essential skills to use generative AI like ChatGPT effectively and securely. In this 3-week course, participants will learn prompting techniques, secure setup, and practical applications to streamline accounting tasks through hands-on exercises. Ideal for building a strong foundation in AI while prioritizing data security.
SPACE IS LIMITED to 50 participants.
AI Impact is a 3-week course for accounting professionals ready to advance their AI skills. Explore custom GPT development, strategic financial analysis, and organization-wide AI adoption. Learn to apply ChatGPT to complex tasks like profitability reviews, CAS insights, and impactful presentations. Perfect for optimizing AI to drive strategic insights.
SPACE IS LIMITED to 25 participants.
This program is tailored specifically for CPAs and accounting professionals who are eager to integrate AI into their practice or organization.
If you’re a forward-thinking accountant ready to elevate your skill set and harness the power of AI to enhance your firm's efficiency and use of technology, this exclusive program is designed with you in mind.
Ideal candidates are those who are committed to staying ahead of industry trends, interested in practical applications of AI, and ready to collaborate with a like-minded group of peers.
Whether you’re new to generative AI or you’ve already started using it, this education is sure to level up your AI knowledge and your professional application.
By participating in the MACPA AI Learning Program, you will achieve:
Learn how to best leverage Gen AI in an accounting environment to safely and comfortably add incremental value to your business and small, compoundable efficiencies to your day.
This program is more than just a learning experience – it’s a transformative opportunity to redefine how you approach accounting with the power of AI.
Each 3-week course includes a live session each week. See the dates and times below!
| Learning Experience One: AI Foundations | Thursday, January 9, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET Thursday, January 16, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET Thursday, January 23, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET |
| Learning Experience Two: AI Impact | Thursday, February 6, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET Thursday, February 13, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET Thursday, February 20, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET |
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To ensure a consistent and impactful experience for all, participants in the program are expected to:
Meet Twyla & Byron, two progressively tech-forward CPAs and founders of TB Academy, an education and training facility for accounting professionals across North America.
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Byron K Patrick, CPA.CITP, began as a CPA and then merged his passion for technology with accounting. He founded Simplified Innovations Inc, an IT Department servicing CPA firms, and later joined Botkeeper as a General Manager. He then supported leaders in achieving Business, Balance & Bliss at The B3 Method Institute and is currently the CEO of VERIFYiQ, bringing automated Quality Control to accountants. A recognized technology leader, Byron frequently speaks at conferences and contributes to industry publications, including the Journal of Accountancy. He has been an active member of the Maryland Association of CPAs and the AICPA, holding several key positions.
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Twyla is a CPA with a diverse, strategy-focused skill set that spans accounting, partnerships, entrepreneurship, and software innovation. Recognized as a Top Women in Accounting, Twyla is committed to inspiring others to try something new, share their experiences and challenge the way things have always been done. A former owner of an advisory-led firm, a female founder of a tech start-up, and now head of accounting partnerships at Mercury, Twyla dedicates her time to the intersection of modern accounting and progressive technology, exploring innovative new ways to push forward the accounting profession.
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