The Standard · Function
Finance and Analysis
The Standard names 8 skills in Finance and Analysis. You can be examined on one of them, or on the function as a whole.
A badge names one skill: “Applied AI Badge: Data Analysis”. The two titles name the function: “Applied AI Specialist (Finance and Analysis)”. Learn either any way you like; no book or course is required.
The skills in Finance and Analysis
None of these can be examined today. A skill opens once its questions are approved and tested, and you can practise the ones that have exercises now.
- Data Analysis
Analyses data with AI and verifies every result before it drives a decision.
Practice only
- Survey Design & Analysis
Designs surveys and interprets responses with AI, checking bias and sample before reporting.
- Data Visualisation
Builds charts with AI that show the data faithfully, labelled and sourced.
- Budget Management
Manages a budget with AI-assisted analysis and checks the arithmetic and the assumptions.
- Financial Literacy
Reads financial statements and terms with AI's help and knows when the explanation is wrong.
- Spreadsheets & No-Code Data
Builds spreadsheets and no-code data flows with AI and tests them before trusting them.
Practice only
- Financial Analysis
Runs financial analysis with AI and reconciles every number to its source.
- Data Storytelling
Turns numbers into a narrative with AI that stays true to what the data shows.
A credential for the whole function
Applied AI Specialist and Applied AI Strategist draw their tasks from the skills of one function. The briefs read like your own week, and the credential names Finance and Analysis on the public register. You hold both for life.
45 minutes
Applied AI Specialist (Finance and Analysis)
Practitioners responsible for the quality of AI-assisted work in their field.
This exam is not open yet. Write to registrar@straitsai.institute and we will tell you when it opens.
US$149
What it asks60 minutes
Applied AI Strategist (Finance and Analysis)
Practitioners with at least two years of experience applying AI who design team workflows.
This exam is not open yet. Write to registrar@straitsai.institute and we will tell you when it opens.
US$349
What it asks
Where to start today
- Applied AI Foundations
- Free, 5 minutes, and it covers any job. Take it now.
- Applied AI Certified
- US$49, the general credential for anyone whose job involves AI. What it asks.
- Practice
- Free, up to 50 sessions a day. 2 of the 8 skills in Finance and Analysis have exercises today.
- Any job
- 12 skills apply to every function, whatever you do. Read the Standard.
- Learn first
- Every skill in Finance and Analysis has a book in the AI+ Library. No book is required to pass.
Nothing in Finance and Analysis can be examined today. The free Applied AI Foundations exam and Applied AI Certified are open to everyone, and both cover any job.
See where you stand in 5 minutes.
No card, and no account to start. It covers any job, so it works whatever you do in Finance and Analysis.
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