CPAs as AI Systems Evaluators
Overview
This course provides a concise overview of the emerging role of CPAs as independent evaluators of artificial intelligence systems. Participants will explore how established accounting competencies-including professional skepticism, assurance, internal controls, risk assessment, and evidence evaluation-can be applied to AI. The course introduces major AI standards and frameworks, common AI failure modes, evaluation techniques, governance considerations, regulatory developments, and opportunities for CPAs to provide credible AI assurance and advisory services.
This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Highlights
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:
- The emerging CPA role in AI system evaluation
- NIST, ISO, SOC 2, COSO, and AI assurance frameworks
- AI regulatory and compliance developments
- Hallucination, bias, model drift, sycophancy, and security risks
- AI benchmarks, golden datasets, red-teaming, and performance testing
- AI governance, controls, documentation, and evidence
- AI evaluation engagements, independence, ethics, and professional liability
Prerequisites
A general understanding of accounting, auditing, internal controls, or risk management is helpful. No advanced AI or data science knowledge is required.
Designed For
This course is designed for CPAs, auditors, controllers, finance leaders, risk professionals, and accounting advisors seeking to understand and participate in the emerging field of AI evaluation and assurance.
Objectives
After attending this presentation, you will be able to...
- Explain the emerging role of CPAs as AI system evaluators
- Identify major risks and failure modes associated with AI systems
- Apply established AI risk and assurance frameworks to evaluation engagements
- Analyze AI performance using appropriate benchmarks and testing methods
- Evaluate AI governance, controls, documentation, and vendor evidence
- Assess regulatory, ethical, independence, and liability considerations
- Design a structured approach for evaluating AI systems throughout their lifecycle
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Garrett Wasny, CPA Crossings, LLC Two Commerce Square
Garrett Wasny, MA, CMC, CITP/FIBP is a professional development consultant to accountants, attorneys, and engineers worldwide and a former management consultant with Pricewaterhouse. He advises high skill knowledge workers on how to thrive in the digital age and unleash their online potential using productivity, search, mobile and social technologies. He has authored two books: Global Business Resources.com, published by McGraw-Hill, and How to Conquer the World published by Government Institutes in Washington, D.C. He has also co-authored Using the Web to Compete in a Global Marketplace, published by John Wiley & Sons. His other writing credits include 20 e-books and more than 100 published articles on internet strategy for dozens of leading business publications worldwide. He’s also an award winning speaker who’s delivered more than 1,000 webinars and seminars on internet topics to hundreds of organizations in North America, Europe and Asia.
Non-Member Price $109
Member Price $89