Advisors4Advisors

OpenAI Codex provides sudden acceleration of financial advisor productivity. It's a breakthrough.

Financial planners can use Codex to improve client outcomes by: 

• automating creation of spreadsheets
• converting spreadsheets into textual analysis you can review and share with clients
• converting portfolio reports data into personal updates on a financial plan
• consolidating and analyzing data from disparate sources

At this introductory class, you learn ways to improve how you implement general principles of financial planning using Codex, specifically by learning to:     

1. Explain what Codex is and how it differs from general chatbot prompting, especially its ability to help build structured tools, workflows, dashboards, and lightweight applications. 
2. Identify Codex use cases for a financial advisory practice, including internal dashboards, onboarding trackers, marketing systems, client service workflows, and operations tools. 
3. Translate a business need into a Codex project brief by defining the audience, purpose, required features, data inputs, desired output, and constraints. 
4. Use Codex to create a simple internal advisor dashboard that organizes prospects, onboarding tasks, marketing activity, and follow-up actions in one working prototype. 
5. Structure prompts that guide Codex through staged development, including planning, building, testing, revising, and improving a project rather than trying to complete everything in one prompt. 
6. Evaluate Codex-generated outputs for usefulness, accuracy, and appropriateness, including whether the tool matches the advisor’s actual workflow and business objective. 
7. Recognize compliance, privacy, and data-sensitivity considerations when using AI tools in a financial advisory setting, particularly around client information, financial advice, records, and personally identifiable information. 
8. Distinguish between internal operational uses and higher-risk client-facing uses of Codex-created data, with an emphasis on human review and firm approval before deployment. 
9. Modify a Codex-built prototype using plain-language instructions, such as adding fields, changing layout, improving usability, creating exports, or adapting the dashboard for a different advisory workflow. 
10. Develop a repeatable framework for future Codex projects, allowing participants to move from idea to prototype for practice management, marketing, onboarding, and client service improvements.

Who Should Attend

IARs, CFPs. CPA financial planners, CPA/PFS, CIMAs, CFA and other professionals who seek a deeper understanding of how to use AI to automate financial planning advice processes.

Course Information

• Cost: Free to Advisors4Advisors members ($60/Qtr).
• CPE Credit: 1 hour,  field of study
• Prerequisites: None
• Advanced Preparation: None
• Course Level: Intermediate
• Delivery Method: Group Internet-Based

Learning Experience

The live class is organized into four sections displayed on the left side of your browser and must be completed in sequence:

1. Instructions
2. Instructor lesson live
3. Three polls for CPAs and IARs
4. Survey

Advisors4Advisors is approved as a provider by

• CFP Board, which regulates CE for Certified Financial Planners.
• North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA). NASAA does not endorse any particular provider of CE courses. The content of the course and any views expressed are those of the instructor and do not necessarily reflect the views of NASAA or any of its member jurisdictions. The class is submitted for approval by NASAA.
• National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a Quality Assurance Service (QAS) Self-Study Provider, enabling CPA CPE credit live and on-demand webinars. State boards of accountancy retain final authority on course acceptance. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors at  www.nasbaregistry.org .
• Investments & Wealth Institute, enabling credit for CFP®, CIMA®, and CPWA® professionals.

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