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AI-Powered Accounting with Excel and Power BI
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AI-Powered Accounting with Excel and Power BI

by Lance Rubin
July 2026
Intermediate
372 pages
8h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Module 8 – Validation, Checks, and Comprehensive Audit

Module 8 is the audit module. The exercise: take a working financial workbook and ask AI to find every error in it. Cross-foot the totals. Verify the balance sheet equation. Spot-check the data completeness. Build the kind of validation infrastructure an auditor would want to see, and surface the errors the AI actually finds. This is the most directly auditor-valuable module in the program – and also the module where two of the four tools couldn't complete the work.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • The workflow problem behind audit-grade workbook validation
  • The Module 8 starter workbook and its baseline validation sheet
  • The Module 8 prompt and its six explicit categories ...
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