Discover how autonomous agents are redefining efficiency, compliance, and decision-making in finance and audit.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving beyond simple chatbots and content generation into systems capable of autonomous reasoning, decision-making, and action. Known as Agentic AI, these intelligent systems can plan tasks, interact with tools, analyze data, communicate with other systems, and execute workflows with limited human intervention.
For finance, accounting, audit, and business professionals, Agentic AI represents the next major transformation in operational efficiency, analytics, compliance monitoring, financial reporting, and decision support. From automated reconciliations and continuous auditing to intelligent risk monitoring and dynamic financial analysis, agentic systems are redefining how organizations operate.
This course provides a practical introduction to Agentic AI concepts, architectures, governance considerations, and real-world business applications. Participants will explore how autonomous AI agents differ from traditional generative AI, understand emerging risks and controls, and evaluate how organizations can responsibly integrate agentic technologies into finance and business environments.
The course emphasizes practical business use cases, governance frameworks, ethical considerations, and the evolving role of professionals in an increasingly autonomous AI-driven workplace.
Lynn Fountain has over 45 years of experience spanning public accounting, corporate accounting and consulting. 24 years of her experience has been working in the areas of internal and external auditing. She is a subject matter expert in multiple fields including internal audit, ethics, fraud evaluations, Sarbanes-Oxley, enterprise risk management, governance, financial management and compliance. Ms. Fountain has held two Chief Audit Executive positions for international companies. In 2011, as the Chief Audit Executive for an international construction/ engineering firm, she was involved in the active investigation of a joint venture fraud. The investigation included work with the FBI and ultimately led to indictment of the perpetrators and recovery of $13M. Ms. Fountain is currently engaged in her own training and consulting business and is a regular trainer for the AICPA. Ms. Fountain is the author of three separate technical books. “Raise the Red Flag – The Internal Auditors Guide to Fraud Evaluations” was published by the Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation. -“Leading The Internal Audit Function” and -“Ethics and The Internal Auditor Political Dilemma” were published by Taylor & Francis In addition Ms. Fountain was a contributing author to the certification program exam for the National Association of Accountants. She also has certificate programs on various on-line platforms. Ms. Fountain has performed as an adjunct instructor for the School of Business for Grantham University and developed the first internal audit curriculum for the School of Business at the University of Kansas. Ms. Fountain obtained her BSBA from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from Washburn University in Kansas. She has her CGMA, CRMA credentials and CPA certificate (non-active).
