# AI training

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The most valuable AI training for accountants might not count as CPD

The most valuable AI training for accountants might not count as CPD

In the last few months, agents running on Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 changed what AI can do — but the training most firms will buy to keep up is still a 2024 prompt-engineering course. The skills that actually build an AI-native team are learned through reps in your own work, and the most valuable may not even count as CPD. Here are the six questions to grade any AI training before you book it.

Peter McCarroll
Peter McCarroll
Your team's AI failures are a skills gap in disguise

Your team's AI failures are a skills gap in disguise

A staff member built a brilliant practice management dashboard with AI. One problem — the data that would make it work lives in three systems that don't talk to each other. That gap between vision and architecture is the same gap every CAS practice is hitting. The fix isn't more training. It's building artifacts that prove your team can do the work.

Peter McCarroll
Peter McCarroll