This course explores how CFOs can strategically adopt and govern emerging technologies — especially generative and agentic AI — while managing cybersecurity, infrastructure, and compliance risks. It provides practical guidance for evaluating digital investments, leading AI implementation, and building cyber resilience in finance operations.
Learning Objectives
- Identify strategic opportunities and risks of generative and agentic AI in accounting and finance
- Design governance guardrails and resilience strategies for AI-enabled processes
- Evaluate cybersecurity threats, including adversarial AI techniques
- Assess infrastructure trade-offs between AI hardware, cloud models, and energy/resource impacts
- Prepare for emerging tech risks including post-quantum encryption challenges
Major Topics
- Generative vs. agentic AI in forecasting, reporting, and recovery
- Minimum viable operations and cyber resilience (Deloitte)
- AI governance, ethics, and “human-in-the-loop” frameworks
- Emerging cyber threats and adversarial AI techniques
- Infrastructure considerations: AI chips, cloud cost, quantum risk
- Strategic role of the CFO in evaluating and governing tech investments
