Signed by a Human

Reviewing, Challenging and Approving AI Output in the Finance Function

von Steven Taylor

130 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The real AI risk in finance is not losing your job to a machine. It is keeping your job and signing what the machine got wrong.

AI drafts the forecast, the reconciliation, and the board commentary in seconds. It looks finished. But when it is wrong, your name is the one on it.

Now picture your name on the next AI-assisted board pack. AI now drafts forecasts, reconciliations, variance commentary, and board narratives in seconds. The charts are clean. The commentary reads well. And when it is wrong, it is wrong in a confident, well-formatted way that slips past traditional checks. The machine does not sign. You do.

Signed by a Human is a practical review protocol for CFOs, controllers, FP&A managers, auditors, and finance business partners who approve AI output and refuse to become a rubber stamp.

This book is for you if: - You have stared at a clean AI-drafted pack late at night, felt your stomach tighten, and had no structured way to test it.- You worry that challenging the model will make you look slow or anti-innovation.- Your team uses ChatGPT or other generative AI tools, and nobody is sure who is actually checking the output.>Inside, you will learn: - The SIGNED framework. Six checks you can run in about 20 minutes on routine output and scale up for board papers: Source, Internal consistency, Governance, Narrative, Edge cases and Decision readiness.- The seven ways AI gets finance wrong, from invented facts to stale data and false drivers, so your scepticism lands where it counts.- The mental traps that lead smart people to approve bad AI output and the habits that stop them.- How to push back on a model, a vendor, or a senior sponsor without sounding obstructive.- 21 SIGNED Tips: you can use the same day, plus checklists for forecasts, reconciliations, management commentary, budgets, and variance analysis.>What changes when you apply it: You sign with calm instead of hope. You walk into the board meeting knowing where every headline number came from. You catch the error before it circulates, not after the actuals land. You do not need to code or become a data scientist.

Plenty of people can use AI. Far fewer can decide when its output deserves a signature. This book shows you how to become that person: the Trusted Human in the Loop, whose name on a report means the hard checks were done.

Your signature still means everything. Make sure it deserves to.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175006743
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published