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.
§ 1 — The register
One credential in two grades, both open for enrolment through the candidate portal, and ahead of them the free AI Literacy Certificate, the awareness tier. 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
The awareness tier: one online assessment of what AI is, how it works, where it fails, and why organisations govern it. Identity-verified, on the public register, no course required — the recommended starting point of the pathway.
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.
3 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.
§ 2 — How 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.
§ 3 — Marking
Marking is a function of the Certification Panel and is done by two assessors in a fixed order: the AI assessor goes first and is provisional, the human assessor decides and is accountable, and a result is issued only when both marks concur.
Every script is marked against the published rubric by an AI assessor, which produces a provisional mark and flags where a response diverges from the rubric. It is a first pass and a consistency check across the marking round. It is never the result.
A qualified human assessor marks the same script independently. A result is issued only when both marks concur; where they diverge, the human assessor reviews the divergence and the human determination is final. Every result carries the name of the human decision-maker who can be asked to account for it.
No result is issued on automated marking alone, and no adverse decision — a fail, a suspension, a withdrawal — is ever made without a human assessor. Who appoints the assessors.
§ 4 — Standards 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.