Course Description

This program will demonstrate how AI can help you write more efficiently, without compromising accuracy or professional judgment.

AI provides us with the ability to rapidly polish our writing. Using this technology, we can instantly make our drafts smoother, test our logic, find typos, identify ambiguity, and monitor our tone. However, due to the specialized nature of accounting communication, when we use AI ineffectively, it has the reverse outcome—making our writing slower.

During this session, the instructor combs 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 slow you down is when you ask it to make a document more concise. For instance, when you instruct AI to shorten a letter to a client or slides for a presentation, this request often backfires because AI tends to strip away the subtlety that was important to you but undetectable to “the robot”.


Learning Objectives 

After viewing this program, you will be able to achieve the following:

  • 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 faulty logic, typos, 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.


Specific Example:

The instructor will demonstrate the amount of context that a user should provide to AI 

in order to yield helpful responses, while cautioning users not to waste time "over-explaining".


Who Should Attend?

This webinar is intended for CPAs who are committed to writing carefully. The session is not for individuals who wish to offload their thinking to AI.

Ryan Standil

Ryan Standil leads CPD programs about effective written communication. The goal of the programs is to teach participants how to view their own writing from the perspective of their readers. Before he became a writing instructor, Ryan worked at a law firm in Toronto. Ryan attended Western University, in London, Ontario, where he graduated from the HBA program at the Ivey Business School and the JD program at the Faculty of Law. Today, Ryan delivers presentations at CPA Ontario, the Law Society of Ontario, and individual firms.