14. ICV Croatian Adriatic Region Workshop

Već gotovo 50 godina svog postojanja International Association of Controllers / Internationaler Controller Verein (ICV) postavlja standarde kvalitete za kontroling i kontrolere te je stoga danas važna adresa za izvrsnost kontrolinga u Europi.

Oko 6.000 članova ima koristi od široke mreže kontakata, izvrsnih kontroling događaja, nagrada za izvrsnost u radu i od više od 60 stručnih radnih grupa koje su regionalno orijentirane ili fokusirane na specijalne teme ili industrije.

Radnu grupu ICV Croatian Adriatic Region vodi Dr. sc. Mladen Meter, a grupa je regionalno orijentirana i fokusirana na teme poboljšanja i postizanja izvrsnosti u poslovanju poduzeća različitih industrija. 

ICV Croatian Adriatic Region Workshop: AI-AUGMENTED CONTROLLING 

Commenting on IBCS^® Management Reports with ChatGPT

Predavači: Dr. Mike Schulze i Dr. Mladen Meter

This practice-oriented ICV workshop equips controlling and finance professionals with the competence to use generative AI, exemplified through ChatGPT, to draft, refine, and quality-review managerial commentaries for management reports prepared in line with the International Business Communication Standards (IBCS). IBCS provides a set of standards that define key principles for designing management reports, with the aim of ensuring clarity, consistency, and decision usefulness.

The workshop is structured into three parts: first, participants receive a compact introduction to artificial intelligence with a focus on generative AI and large language models, typical strengths and limitations, and prompting fundamentals. Second, participants learn selected key rules from the IBCS standards that are particularly relevant for creating high-quality management reports and translate these rules into practical guidance. Third, participants complete a hands-on exercise in which they apply ChatGPT to comment on an IBCS-style management report. The exercise emphasizes a quality-assurance loop that cross-checks narratives against reported figures and ensures auditable, management-ready wording.

13:00 – 13:30 Registration

13:30 – 14:15 Artificial Intelligence in Controlling

• Generative AI and large language models
• Typical strengths and limitations
• Prompting fundamentals

14:15 – 14:45 Artificial Intelligence in Controlling

• IBCS^® – becomes ISO Standard – ISO/AWI 24896 Standard notation for business reports
• IBCS^® top ten rules
• Designing hands-on managament reports based on IBCS^® standards

14:45 – 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:30 ChatGPT in Controlling -– Practical Application 

• Use ChatGPT to comment on an IBCS-style management report
• Validate narratives against reported figures
• Deliver auditable, management-ready wording

16:30 – 17:00 Lessons Learned & Exchange

Specijalistička radionica: AI IN CONTROLLING & FINANCE

Use Cases, Prompt Engineering, and Reporting Practice

Predavač: Dr. Mike Schulze

This practice-oriented workshop enables controlling and finance professionals to understand and apply generative AI (exemplified through ChatGPT) across core finance activities, from use-case identification to prompt engineering and management reporting. Participants will learn how large language models can augment analysis and communication tasks, where their limitations require controls, and how to operationalize AI-supported workflows for report creation and commentary with a robust quality-assurance loop. This workshop is intended for consultants, controllers, finance business partners, management reporting professionals, and finance managers and analysts working with planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and performance management.

Goals:

• Build foundational literacy in artificial intelligence with a focus on generative AI and large language models
• Become familiar with AI use cases in controlling and finance
• Understand a practical evaluation framework (assessment matrix) to judge use cases along relevant dimensions
• Develop prompting fundamentals to reliably steer AI outputs
• Apply AI in a hands-on reporting exercise to create and comment on management reports with a structured narrative logic and verification steps

08:30 – 09:00 Registration and introduction

09:00 – 10:30 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (focus: Generative AI & LLMs)

• Understanding artificial intelligence: key concepts, terminology
• Typical strengths and limitations
• Change management aspects: adoption drivers and barriers

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 12:15 Use Cases in Controlling & Finance

• What AI can (and cannot) do in finance contexts
• Use-case landscape with practical examples
• Evaluating use cases for company-specific implementation

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch break

13:15 – 14:45 Prompting Fundamentals

• Prompt structure: objective, context, constraints, assumptions, and output format
• Prompting types and patterns: single-shot vs. iterative prompting;  mega-prompts and meta-prompts
• Practical Exercises

14:45 – 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 – 16:15 Practical Exercise – Report Creation and Commentary

• Drafting a short management report section and commentary using a reusable prompt template
• Quality-assurance loop: cross-check against figures, consistency checks, tone calibration, final editorial pass

16:15 – 16:30 Wrap-up

PRIJAVNICA ZA ČLANSTVO

Član ICV Croatian Adriatic Region možete postati kao:

• individualna osoba (prijava) - 97,50 EUR
• poduzeće - 5 zaposlenika (prijava) - 487,50 EUR
• mlada osoba - do 30 godina (prijava) - 48,75 EUR

Prilikom ispunjavanja obrasca, u polju Participation in the following work group, molimo odaberite opciju Croatian Adriatic Region.

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