AI Essentials for Finance: Making better decisions

Introduction

Judgment, Value Creation, and Decision Systems

Developed by Professor Dennis Vink, PhD and Stéphane Guerraz, MBA this program builds on extensive experience in educating and advising professionals across leading international organizations. It reflects years of working with senior decision-makers on real-world financial, strategic, and investment challenges.

Finance has always served three core purposes: measuring economic reality, translating it into value, and enabling decisions under uncertainty. Each major shift in capitalism has reshaped how these functions are performed. Artificial intelligence represents the next such shift.

This program examines how AI is transforming the practice of finance—not by altering its fundamental responsibilities, but by reshaping how financial judgment is formed, challenged, and embedded into organizational decision systems.

Through rigorous corporate finance case work, participants analyze financial statements, valuation frameworks, capital allocation, and investment decisions to assess long-term economic value creation. AI tools are used to surface assumptions, explore alternative futures, stress-test returns, and contrast financial conclusions with management narratives at the time decisions were made.

The emphasis is not on prediction, but on judgment: how finance moves beyond analysis to design decision rules, financial guardrails, and escalation mechanisms that allow organizations to act faster without losing financial discipline.

Participants leave with a clear understanding of how AI reshapes measurement, valuation, and judgment—and how finance can serve as a central driver of strategy, governance, and business model design in an increasingly volatile environment.

This program is delivered in collaboration between Nyenrode Business University and Financeacademy.nl.

Program overview

Opening and Introductions: Program overview, objectives, and participant introductions.

AI & Finance: Measurement, Valuation, and Judgment: Exploring the evolving role of finance in the age of AI. Participants examine how AI reshapes financial measurement, valuation, and decision-making under uncertainty, using corporate finance concepts and case-based discussio

AI & Finance: Case Applications and Decision Systems: In-depth case work applying AI to real-world corporate finance situations. Focus on investment decisions, economic value creation, stress-testing assumptions, and designing financial guardrails for better and faster decision-making.

Speakers:

Stephane Guerraz - Lecturer & Facilitato. Stéphane designs and facilitates workshops at the intersection of AI strategy and adoption, innovation, leadership and culture, bridging the gap between vision and action. He contributes to this program on a external basis.

Speakers

Prof. dr. Dennis Vink

Job title Professor

Dennis Vink is Professor of Finance and Investment at Nyenrode Business Universiteit.

These speakers are subject to change.

Admission

Who Should Attend

This program is designed for leaders involved in high-stakes decisions where financial outcomes, strategic choices, and uncertainty intersect.

Typical participants include:

Senior finance leaders (CFOs, finance directors, controllers)
Strategy, corporate development, and M&A professionals
General managers and business unit leaders with P&L responsibility
Board members and senior executives with oversight of investment and capital allocation
Consultants and advisors working at the intersection of finance, strategy, and AI
Non-financial leaders who regularly make or influence investment, growth, or transformation decisions

The program is particularly relevant for participants who seek to strengthen financial judgment, not merely analytical capability, and who want to engage more effectively with finance in strategic and board-level decision-making in the age of AI.

Preparation and Study Commitment

Participants will receive a curated set of textbooks, case materials, and preparatory readings in advance of the program. These materials provide the conceptual foundation and empirical context required for the case discussions and in-class exercises.

To fully benefit from the program, participants are expected to dedicate approximately 10 hours of individual preparation prior to the sessions. This preparation is essential to ensure a common analytical baseline and to enable rigorous, high-quality discussion during the program.

The required preparation reflects the program’s emphasis on depth, rigor, and active participation, and is integral to the overall learning experience.

Date & time

When does this program take place?

March 19, 2026
June 10, 2026

The program AI Essentials for Finance: Making better decisions will take place during one day at Nyenrode Business University. The program will start at 10:00 (welcome from 9:30) and will end around 16:30.

Registration & more information

You can registrate by using the application button.

Interested in this program?

Are you interested in the AI Essentials for Finance: Making better decisions program? Then apply online.

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Investment

Tuition fee AI Essential for Finance: Making better decisions

The tuition fee is €1.195,- per person, excluding VAT. Prices include a certificate of participation from Nyenrode Business Universiteit and CM:, a three-month subscription to CM:, and course materials.

Terms and Conditions

The General Terms and Conditions of Open Programs apply to this program and they will be included with our participation confirmation.

All amounts and conditions are indicative (excluding additional costs, unless otherwise stated) and subject to periodic changes.