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The Certified Applied AI Associate, open to any adult and the Council’s flagship, then one professional credential in two grades, for the people who use AI in finance and accounting work and the people who decide how a finance function uses it. Every one is assessed on applied judgement against a published anchor, and every result is on the public register.
For finance and accounting professionals who use AI in analysis, close and reporting work — and verify the output before the numbers are relied on.
For senior finance and accounting professionals who set the terms on which AI is used across a finance function — and answer for the estimates, controls and disclosures it touches.
Examinations set against
Curriculum mapping indicates alignment of learning content with published frameworks. It does not constitute endorsement by, or certification under, any standards organisation or regulator.
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Weightings are indicative until each syllabus is published. Every domain is examined on work the candidate has not seen, never on recall.
AI in analysis, forecasting and FP&A
25%Close and reconciliation support
20%Anomaly and fraud flagging, and reporting
20%Verifying AI output before reliance
20%Responsible use and accountability
15%Governing AI use across the finance function
20%AI-assisted estimates, forecasts and disclosures
25%AI inside internal control and the close
20%Reliance thresholds, verification and escalation
20%Accountability to auditors, committees and regulators
15%The same route for every paid credential, run through the candidate portal. The fee buys the examination and the membership that comes with it, and it includes the Council's self-paced video course. Using the course is optional and never affects a mark.
Email and a password on the candidate portal. Nothing is payable to register.
A government-issued document and a short face check, once. The verified name is the name the credential carries.
The examination fee includes the first year of membership. Take the examination any day in the 90 days that follow.
Remote, proctored and recorded, and taken in one sitting once begun. Your paper is assigned when you begin. Applied questions on work you have not seen.
Machine marked against a fixed key. A named person reviews the recording and releases the result within 3 working days.
A unique identifier anyone can verify, valid two years, held under the Code of Professional Conduct.
Assessed on a deployment the candidate has never seen — scoping it, weighing the applicable requirements, and defending the conclusion. Not recall.
Risk, engineering, and audit read a holder’s finding the same way, because every holder was assessed against the same published competency framework.
Every credential has a unique identifier on the public register. An employer verifies it in seconds, without asking the holder or the Council.
A two-year term with revalidation. In a field moving this fast, a credential that cannot expire stops meaning anything.
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Answers from the live register — no account, no contacting the holder.
Each of these is a published commitment. Where the Council fails one, that is a defect you can raise under the appeals procedure.
The instruments AI assurance work is measured against, taken provision by provision: what each requires, who it binds, when it applies, and what an assessor asks to see before accepting that it has been met. 69 published so far, free to read, and added to daily.
Membership
Every paid examination includes the first year of individual membership, and an active membership is what keeps the credential in force. Membership is renewed, never bought up a grade: standing in the scheme changes only when an assessment says so.
Do not approve an AI agent on a good demonstration. Approve it once a test team has proved, repeatedly, where its authority ends.
Most AI effort goes into choosing and testing the model. Deployments usually succeed or fail on the four things wrapped around it.
Agentic AI has not created a new governance problem so much as exposed a structural one. Fragmented controls produce fragmented evidence.
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Ten questions on using AI at work. About two minutes, free. You finish as one of six types, with a card to share.
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A free quiz from the AI Assurance Council. Not a certification.