AI-powered Excel: Leveraging AI and ChatGPT for supercharged productivity
CPA Canada
Last updated September 6, 2026
AI-powered Excel: Leveraging AI and ChatGPT for supercharged productivity is a short on-demand course presented jointly by CPA Canada and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. It has two halves. The first is the AI functionality built into Excel itself and how to put it to work. The second brings ChatGPT alongside the spreadsheet: writing functions and formulas, making sense of ones somebody else wrote, tracking down the cause of an error, researching a technique, and generating documentation so a workbook’s logic is legible to the next person. It is a paid, self-paced course with six months from enrollment to complete.
What you'll learn
- The AI features built into Excel, and how to use them
- Writing Excel functions and formulas with ChatGPT
- Making sense of formulas written by somebody else
- Researching techniques and troubleshooting errors in a workbook
- Documenting a workbook so its logic is legible to others
Frequently asked questions about AI-powered Excel: Leveraging AI and ChatGPT for supercharged productivity
Who is AI-powered Excel: Leveraging AI and ChatGPT for supercharged productivity for?
Accountants and finance staff who work heavily in Excel and want to build, fix and document workbooks faster.
Is AI-powered Excel: Leveraging AI and ChatGPT for supercharged productivity free?
No — AI-powered Excel: Leveraging AI and ChatGPT for supercharged productivity is a paid course.
Why we suggest this course
For accountants who live in spreadsheets and want the AI layer that has grown around them. Two parts stand out: troubleshooting a formula that returns the wrong answer, and documenting a workbook nobody else can follow — both chores that consume real time and both well suited to a model. The scope is deliberately narrow, which is what makes it immediately usable.