Sound financial judgement is the backbone of every strategic decision. In today’s data-rich environment, AI can accelerate insights, but only if the fundamentals are solid. This artificial intelligence course for finance professionals builds your fluency in core financial principles and shows you how to use AI tools to sharpen analysis, forecast with confidence, and tell clearer stories with numbers. You’ll learn to think like a CFO, balancing intuition, discipline, and data to make more effective financial calls.
Leading with AI: Finance
Hybrid course schedule
July 27: Self-paced, online GenAI 101
August 3: In person in Indianapolis, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
August 10: Live virtual, 1 to 3:30 p.m.
August 17: Submit project for digital badge (optional)
Fee: $1,495 per person (IU alumni, IU staff, and team discounts available)
Learning objectives
Through hands-on exercises and faculty-led discussions, you’ll learn to:
- Sharpen the essentials: Deepen your understanding of cash flow, margins, working capital, and cost-benefit analysis.
- Turn data into decisions: Build simple, defensible cases for investments and trade-offs.
- Improve forecasting: Use AI to run scenarios, stress-test assumptions, and flag anomalies.
- Ensure smart use: Apply privacy protocols, quality checks, and basic controls to keep your numbers accurate and trustworthy.
After completing this AI in finance course, you’ll leave with clear criteria and financial acumen, practical forecasting and KPI tracking techniques, tighter financial communication skills, and an Action Learning Project that is tailored to your role and organization.
Interested in bringing this program to your company or organization? Email kelleypd@iu.edu to discuss our custom program options.
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Showcase your new skills
Each course offers the opportunity to complete an optional Action Learning Project, applying course concepts to a real organizational challenge you face. Participants who complete this project earn a digital badge, a verifiable credential you can showcase on platforms like LinkedIn.
Build toward a professional certificate
Complete four courses from the Leading with AI professional development series and earn the Kelley Professional Certificate in AI Leadership.
Course outline
Asynchronous, online introduction to the course, including short pre-reading assignments and an overview of GenAI
Hands-on practice and peer discussion; one day, in person (Indianapolis)
Use case clinic: Use case clinic: 2.5 hours of live, online, instructor-led training
Create and submit an Action Learning Project tailored to your organization
Course details
- Format: Combination of asynchronous online, live online, and in-person classes
- Schedule: July 27 to August 17; in person in Indianapolis on August 3, live online on August 10 from 1 to 3:30 p.m.
- Discounts: Available for IU alumni, staff, groups of three or more participants, and purchases of four or more courses*
*Purchase four or more courses in the Leading with AI series and receive a $1,500 discount. Pay a total of $4,480 (regularly $5,980), a 25% savings.
Access a customizable supervisor request letter to support your case for attending a Kelley professional development course.
Meet your instructor
Majid Darvishan
Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance
Majid Darvishan is a clinical assistant professor of finance in the Department of Finance at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Bloomington. His research focuses on corporate finance, corporate governance, institutional investors, and industrial organization. He teaches courses including Corporate Financial Risk Management (MBA, online), Corporate Financial Strategy (MBA, hybrid), Bank and Financial Intermediation (undergraduate), and Intermediate Investments (undergraduate).
Before his academic career, Majid held professional roles in Iran, including piping stress engineer at Sazeh Consultants Engineering Co. and CEO and co-founder of FIM LTD. His scholarly work has been accepted for presentation at the Financial Management Association (FMA) doctoral student consortium and includes papers such as “CEO-Firm Matches: Evidence from Competition Shocks and Institutional Ownership Concentration and Stock Price Informativeness.”
Prior to joining Indiana University, he earned his PhD in Finance from the University of Pittsburgh in 2020. He also holds an MSc in Economics and Finance from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and MSc degrees in both management and mechanical engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran, as well as a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif.
Questions?
Email us at kelleypd@iu.edu and a member of our team will be happy to assist you.