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AI Finance: Build Your Automated Reconciliation Tool with AI – Part 1/3

Build your own reconciliation tool entirely with AI (no code). Reconcile any account faster, match transactions, track issues to resolution: audit-ready, controller-grade, best practice & customized.

Created byPeter Ilas, FCCA
All LevelsUpdated Jul 23, 2026
AI Finance: Build Your Automated Reconciliation Tool with AI – Part 1/3

What You'll Learn

check_circleBuild a modern, browser-based reconciliation tool entirely with AI, using vibe coding — from a blank page to the first version.
check_circleAnalyse source data with AI and craft effective prompts to generate your tool.
check_circleReconcile accounts with or without a subledger, using journals, opening balances, custom lines, and statement tie-outs.
check_circleExplain where AI can and cannot help, and why finance owns the logic, testing, and controls.
check_circleLearn how to test each version so it works exactly to your expectations.

About This Course

Balance sheet reconciliations are one of the most important controls in finance – and one of the most painful to prepare. Every month-end brings the same manual routine in Excel: import journals, pull the trial balance, rebuild tables, insert prior open items, add subtotals, and match line by line, all while hoping no formula breaks. It is slow, error-prone, and leaves little time for the review that actually matters.

This course shows you a completely different way. Using AI and "vibe coding," you will build your own modern, browser-based reconciliation tool – no coding or IT skills are needed. You simply send plain-language prompts to any AI you already use, and the AI builds the tool for you. In five clear steps and under two hours, you go from a blank page to a robust, working application that does in a few clicks what used to take hours.

Through this practical, step-by-step program, you will learn to:

  • Build the tool from scratch with AI: Analyse your source data, draft the master prompt, generate Version 1, and refine it through simple prompt-and-test iterations.
  • Reconcile any account: Handle accounts with or without a subledger, opening balances and movements.
  • Add workflows Excel cannot offer: Various filters, sorting groups and items together, transaction matching, match groups, color-coded statuses, and issues tracked all the way to resolution.
  • Reconcile as often as you need: Run the process monthly, weekly, or daily — export and re-import your work, protect prior entries, add only new journals, and tie out to the trial balance.
  • Customize it and apply best practice: Tailor the tool to your company, accounts, and personal style, and build in proven reconciliation best practice as you go.
  • Use AI safely: Apply data-privacy rules, company policy, and safe practices before you ever touch real company data.

You will also receive:

  • A complete Prompt Library with ready-to-use prompts
  • 16 variants and 41 troubleshooting FAQ answers
  • plus fictitious practice data and 7 guided exercises covering various accounts and realistic issues.

Whether you are an accountant, controller, auditor, finance manager, or fractional CFO, this course changes how you work: hours become minutes, most of the effort shifts up front, and you walk into every close with an already clean balance sheet – spending your time reviewing and clearing items instead of crunching them.

This Is Part 1 of 3

This is where you'll build the foundation: understand AI "vibe coding," analyse your source data, and go from a blank page to the first version.

Your Instructor

Peter Ilas, FCCA
Peter Ilas, FCCA

Practical AI for Accounting & Finance | Build Your Own Tools | Fraud Prevention, E-Invoicing & Ethics | 30 Years of Experience

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My courses focus on practical applications of AI in accounting and finance, alongside fraud prevention, e-invoicing and financial reporting ethics. – AI Finance: Build and customise reconciliation tools and fraud dashboards using plain-language prompts (“vibe coding”), without prior programming experience. Learn to validate results, protect sensitive data and create repeatable workflows. – Fraud prevention and internal controls: Recognise red flags in invoices, payments, payroll and other transactions, and apply preventive controls and structured investigation methods. – E-invoicing: Understand global requirements, electronic invoice formats and opportunities to automate accounts payable and receivable. – Financial reporting ethics: Work through accounting judgments, estimates and ethical dilemmas using practical cases and decision-making tools. My teaching draws on 30 years of experience in accounting, finance leadership, internal and external audit, and transformation, including roles at Big4 firms, DELL, SSE and TOMRA. I am a Fellow of ACCA (FCCA) and the founder of E-LITE Consulting and RSAgile.

Credit Information

Professional development requirements vary by profession, country, and regulatory body. Before enrolling, review the course details and confirm that the content, learning format, and any listed credits meet your specific requirements. You are responsible for confirming eligibility with your regulator or professional association and keeping the records required for reporting.

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