AI Accounting Course Targets CPA, CMA, EA Exam Prep With Finance-Tuned Chatbot

Simandhar Education launches AI-focused course for accounting professionals, integrating AI tools like Excel Copilot and Gemini into CPA/CMA/EA exam prep with a finance-trained chatbot and live ins...

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Right? Like you can see um the notebook notebook LM I don't know how many of you know Google that is one of the examples of how LM can be used and even in Excel you will have lot of AI tools when you use Google sheets also you will see that Gemini is integrated in it in Excel co-pilot is integrated so if you ask copilot today in today's world no one no one in the corporate will be excited to see that you know formulas etc right and how to make private tables everything can be done by giving a prompt so you need to know how to give a prompt and you need to know where to apply right where to apply the AI and how to use ethically how to not give data to AI which is not to be given uh sensitive information etc all those things are there taxation also has a lot of AI related applications and this course obviously is 100% practical in nature right live course will be there online live classes and u all the classes are online live classes here you will get definitely you'll get certificates and then placement support also will be there if you are having this along with any other professional course then uh you will have a very good leverage a cutting edge leverage along with um if suppose in an interview two people are there right one is a CMA another is CMA with cap right with this AI course then definitely the person with the AI course will have a unique advantage right because unique proposition will be there. Um most of the courses out there in AI is not relevant per se for finance but this is developed as per finance only. The bot right the chat bot also that is there which we use AI shrial that is that has been trained specifically on finance and accounting. Okay. So that is like how you develop a theme and in today's world we know that uh being a graduate is like a 10th grade correct we all know that so at least you need to have a professional course to gain entry we also know that CA course is quite um I would say challenging if you want to get into getting into the CA course is easy but getting out is very difficult right so we have got better alternatives where the probability of success the pass percentage etc is much higher and the entry level is the same along with that if you have this uh cap course then it is like um you will have a much better advantage so level one as I said 15 hours only at least level one if you uh take then you will be at a beginning stage right level two will be your intermediate stage so how you can get a Obviously wherever you can apply the uh the application of AI is everywhere right? See the thing you have to understand because I am an interviewer right I take interviews a lot of times for the subordinates. So now you have to understand from our perspective also when I am looking at a candidate. Yeah. Or anyone who is taking an interview when we are looking at a candidate we want someone who can do things that I don't know also right correct. So that we can develop right if a candidate is coming who is having the level of knowledge that I am having right obviously not the experience but the tools knowledge technical knowledge if he is or she is only having that level of knowledge that I am having then how will there will be additional advantages that will be built into the system right by taking a new person then we can only we can easily make do with the internal uh folks only right so that is why Whenever an interviewer looks at a candidates, we we always check out that whether they are bringing in additional skills, right? And this is obviously currently the most relevant and additional and relevant skills. If you are having some skills which is not relevant for the job, then it is of no use, right? So whether it is a big four whether it is you are talking about industry everywhere the uh these skills are very much high demand and you will always have the first mover advantage because many of the people will not understand also that which course needs to be done how to get into AI everyone talks about AI today right every other LinkedIn post or every other course you will see that they will talk about being AI ready but then what is that that no one is talking about right it's just u I would say talk that is happening and here you are getting foolproof and practical plan of how to execute it. Now coming to what are the professional courses I was talking about right graduation today has got almost zero value right so the courses that at Simandha we provide first of all USCPA which is the gold standard of accounting right we all know that USCM is there which is a very good course it is like equivalent to the ICWI or ICMI of U India right cost accounting USCA is there which is a unique course u I don't think anything is there equivalent to that in India because it makes youme of US taxes right you will have the same rights as a enrolled attorney or enrolled CPA etc is there where in an intern internal audit field you will become a uh key function key uh person forensic accounting is a very good area whereby you can get into after doing CIA ACCA is the UK equivalent of USCPA that's also a very robust course it is like the chartered accountancy only everything is having their unique advantages and disadvantages which we are going to discuss now right so first is USCPA so USCPA is basically the gold standard of accounting correct now in case of USCPA you have got only four parts four subjects initially when I had also heard about it I thought that only four subjects how is that possible and it is the equivalent of US Indian CA right that is that seemed very uh very much it seemed like unlikely right but it is the tr the reason behind it that in USCPA the entry is difficult in CA the entry is easy right so in USCPA the entry is difficult because you will have a certain set of credits that you need to get whereby you need to get your evaluation done by the team okay uh Simandra helps in that also because we know that that is the biggest hurdle that everyone faces. Thereby we give we have a dedicated team who helps out in the evaluation part in getting your credits getting you evaluated and checking out which state board will be best for you. Right? So all those things are done by Simander and you will get the adequate help whereby that is required. Um so once you have entered into the course right there are only four subjects three are the core subjects and uh one subject is a discipline one where you will have three choices from which you can choose one. Now CPA is a no-brainer if you have got the time and uh inclination towards it. It is the gold standard no doubt at a career outcome it is equivalent to a CA right in India also and abroad obviously it will have more weightage than a Indian CA. So you need to uh if you are a BCOM also you can take uh CPA but then while getting the license you need more credits. So there is a um bridge course that is that is that is to be done or you can do your MCOM also anyway. So that will that will be um explained to you in details by the team right? Okay. The passing marks here is 75 marks per part. It doesn't matter how many parts you are taking, how many subjects you are taking together. So that's why we recommend that you take one subject only at a time. Um 75 marks seems like a big number but actually it is not. Uh it is very much achievable. You will if you see the past percentages it is like three times than CA right three to four times [snorts] with Simandher we have got Becker exclusivity right Becker has been the number one CPA course provider in US and in India we are the only uh review course provider who gives you access to the Becker software and of course at Simandher we have got live trainings that happen classes by teachers like me and others who are industry level experts. So you have got Indian folks who are teaching you and you have also got um the software with the MCQs and simulations, mock examinations etc. Simander has got its own LMS also. So we are the only review course provider which has got two LMS. One is the Simander internal own developed LMS and the other one is Becker. So you have got double advantage here. Obviously AI repal bot is given right that uh that that will solve your queries at any point of time 24/7 right um there are many tiers of um the course also premium elite etc etc in one of the tiers you will get the access to cap course also the AI full course apart from that there is AI shipal bot which will solve all your queries whenever you want to, right? Because it is a trained uh trained chatbot which has got all the knowledge of CPA and it has passed the USCPA twice the B. Then we have got USCMA which is more into managerial roles right management accounting in that it is equivalent of Indian cost accountant. Okay, we have got two parts only here and it can be cleared within a lesser period of time. If CPA takes 8 to 12 months, here you can pass it out in 6 to 10 months only. And uh this these exams are happening in India also. Okay. Here you need to have a BCOM and then some workx is required. Once you have that you can take the exam. Okay. A lot of opportunities are there. in FPNA roles in controllership in accounting also for US CMA al okay of course like you like chartered accountancy is a notch higher than cost accounting similarly USCPA is a little bit a notch higher than USCMA but uh as a standalone subject it's very good and on top of that if you do the CAP course with this the AI course with this then you will be at a very high Well, EA is the US taxation course. With EA, we know that it gives you practicing rights. What do we mean by that? That you will be at the same level in the eyes of the IRS. IRS is the Internal Revenue Service, which is the US taxation body. you will have the same practicing rights in front of the IRS as a enrolled actually enrolled attorney or a CPA also right so in case of taxation it will be like that this courses are a high demand in fact many of the big four u

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