Certification scheme
Every credential is earned by assessment against a published anchor — a named framework, regulation, or field of professional practice. Candidates are not asked to recall it; they are asked to apply it to work they have never seen before.
§ 1The register
The Council’s flagship, the Certified Applied AI Associate, its fee waived by a coupon code from the AI-Readiness Check, and after it one credential in two grades, both open for enrolment through the candidate portal. The Council started with finance and accounting on purpose. Fundamentals certifies a professional's own AI-assisted work; Professional certifies the person who sets the terms on which a finance function uses AI. Neither requires the other.
Open now · 30 minutes · US$199*
One online assessment of what AI is, how it works, where it fails, and how to use it soundly at work. Open to anyone 18 or over, on the public register, no course required, and the recommended starting point of the pathway.
* Waived with a coupon code from the AI-Readiness Check
2 hours · US$695
For finance and accounting professionals who use AI in analysis, close and reporting work — and verify the output before the numbers are relied on.
2 hours · US$895
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.
Curriculum mapping indicates alignment of learning content with published frameworks. It does not constitute endorsement by, or certification under, any standards organisation or regulator.
§ 2How to certify
Every credential is earned the same way: register and sit the examination. The fee includes the Council's self-paced video course, and using it is optional. Each credential page publishes its examination domains, the full syllabus is published before its examination window, and candidates may prepare with the course, through an employer programme, or by self-study against the published materials. The fee and the marking standard are the same however a candidate prepared, candidates who prepared with the Council included, and assessors are not told.
Examination fees are published on each credential page. How certification works · Candidate handbook · How preparation and examination are kept independent.
§ 3Marking
Every finance examination is a single-best-answer paper, so it is marked by machine against a fixed key. What a person does is review the session and release the result, by name, and answer for it.
Every paper is marked by machine against its fixed answer key, item by item. Unscored pilot items never count. The same answers always produce the same mark, whoever runs it and however often.
Before any result is released, a named member of the Council’s staff reviews the recording of the session and the marked script, then releases it, within 3 working days of submission. Every result carries the name of the person who released it and can be asked to account for it.
No result is released until a person has reviewed the recording and the marked script. Any candidate may also ask for a clerical check of the mark by a named member of staff, which is free and separate from an appeal. Who is accountable for a result.
§ 4Standards alignment
Each credential names the framework or regulation it examines against, and that anchor appears in the credential's own name — descriptive text, never a logo, never a claim of endorsement.
Curriculum mapping indicates alignment of learning content with published frameworks. It does not constitute endorsement by, or certification under, any standards organisation or regulator.
Ten questions on using AI at work. About two minutes, free. You finish as one of six types, with a card to share.
SHARE BY 31 DECEMBER, US$199 FEE WAIVED
A free quiz from the AI Assurance Council. Not a certification.
