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Claude AI in Excel for Finance (Udemy.com)

Claude AI, Excel, Finance Workflows, Financial Modeling, Forecasting, Budgeting, FP&A, Sensitivity Analysis, Monte Carlo

Created by: Carlos Martínez, PhD

Last updated June 2026

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What you will learn

  • Build financial models in Excel with Claude using a structured workflow that is faster, auditable, and easier to defend.
  • Create, compare, and validate sales forecasts using holdout testing, error metrics, and evidence-based model selection.
  • Analyze financial statements with Claude, interpret key ratios, and translate the numbers into clear business insights.
  • Evaluate investment projects in Excel with Claude, including sensitivity analysis, scenario thinking, and Monte Carlo support.
  • Build an integrated master budget in Excel, including sales, cash, income statement, and budgeted balance sheet.
  • Review AI-generated models for assumptions, timing logic, consistency, and financial risks before presenting them.
  • Adapt proven reference models and reusable prompts to build financial workflows more efficiently and with less guesswork.

How it compares

Against the other 376 rated Udemy courses in Finance & Accounting on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 68% of them
  • Reviews480#183 of 377 by number of reviews
  • Length4.3 hoursshorter than 54% of them
  • Last updatedJune 2026more recently than 71% of them

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Course Description

AI already has huge potential in business and finance, but real usage is still far behind. That gap creates an opportunity for professionals who learn to use these tools well, before that becomes standard. The problem is that AI can produce work that looks polished very quickly, and when something looks professional, people tend to question it less. That is exactly why this course is not about flashy prompts. It is about using Claude in Excel for finance with speed, yes, but also with structure, rigor, and judgment.

My name is Carlos Martínez. I hold a PhD in Management from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, I have written 25 teaching cases, including some in Harvard and University of Michigan case libraries, and I have spent more than five years building finance and analytics courses on Udemy. I designed this course so you do not just generate output. I want you to understand the financial logic, ask better questions, and know how to validate what Claude gives you.

Inside the course, we work through a practical progression. We start with portfolio optimization, then move into financial statement analysis, dashboards, and executive summaries. After that, we go into capital budgeting and investment analysis, including sensitivity analysis and Monte Carlo support. And we close with one of the most valuable areas in real financial work: financial planning, the master budget, and projected financial statements.

You will not only get video lessons. You will also get downloadable Excel files, PDFs of the presentations, reusable prompts, assignments with suggested solutions, access to the Q&A forum, and AI-powered roleplays so you can practice defending your models, assumptions, and conclusions in realistic business conversations.

If you want to work faster without sacrificing quality, and you want a practical framework for using Claude in Excel for real financial work, this course is for you. Take a look at the free lessons, review the details, and if the approach makes sense to you, I would be glad to have you inside the course.

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Instructor Details

Carlos Martínez, PhD

(English profile below)

Carlos es un apasionado del método de casos de enseñanza, coautor de más de 25 de ellos en las áreas de finanzas, estrategia, operaciones y desarrollo sostenible. Algunos de estos han sido incluidos en las bases de casos de prestigiosas escuelas de negocio como Harvard, Michigan e IESE.

Es Ingeniero Industrial y Master en Finanzas de la Universidad Centroamericana, MBA con distinción de INCAE Business School y Ph.D. en Management de la Universidad de San Galo, Suiza. Ha orientado su investigación hacia el impacto de la información social, ambiental, y de gobierno corporativo (ESG) en los mercados financieros. También ha desarrollado estudios relacionados con el acceso al financiamiento emprendedor en contextos con vacíos institucionales.

Su investigación ha sido presentada en prestigiosas conferencias como el coloquio doctoral del Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (MIT, EEUU), la conferencia especializada “From start-up to scale-up” del Academy of Management (University of Tel-Aviv, Israel), la tercera conferencia en Entrepreneurial Finance (Politecnico de Milano, Italia) y el Congreso Anual del European Accounting Association (Valencia, España).

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Reviews

4.6

480 ratings on Udemy

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By Mahendra Singh on 9/28/2026

Focus on using AI wisely by putting our own judgement and rigor to the outputs is very helpful and guiding.

By Nikos Zanias on 9/10/2026

οι προτασεις ακριβεις, υπηρχε ροη κι συνοχη στη λογικη σαν δομη γεωμετριας απο τα απλα στα συνθετα.Για μενα απο οσα εχω παρακολουθησει ταιριαζει περισσοτερο στο τροπο που σκεφτομαι.

By Martin Duchesneau on 8/27/2026

Excellent course! Very hands-on and up-to-date course, provides a clear structured approach for using Claude in Excel.

By Lorenzo Vergara Gomes Villacorta on 8/11/2026

If you don´t have a solid financial background it can be a bit too much, because the course doesn´t intend to teach how to do all you´re going to ask Claude to do. Even so, if you power through, you can get the most important insight: how to build prompts which challange critically and guide Claude to do the work in a auditable manner. Still recommend learning about Investment Analysis, Portfolio Theroy, Master Budgeting, Financial Statement Analysis etc. before taking the course and using the provided materials to teach your own Chatbot how to build the prompts with you and turn it into a set of Claude Skills, which can be reused in A LOT of practical cenarios. All of this is well disclose by Carlos, which is a very good instructor. Just didn´t rate it a 10 mostly because of the interactive AI features which I personally found a bit annoying, although I understand why they are there. Some things just work best with real people and I couldn´t adapt to having those "convincing/model deffense" exercises with an AI chatbot.

By Dian Anggraini on 7/21/2026

Need more realistic work example, but so far so good. Thankyou

By Ravin Thakur on 7/2/2026

Very useful and practical way of teaching . This is very informative and structured course for Excel linking with Claude .Keep it up

By Veronica1 on 6/23/2026

I hope new students to this course can be patient and listen to the opening preview sessions because he drops truly gold nuggets of insight before jumping into using claude.

By Rick Perry on 5/31/2026

This was a great class filled with sophisticated material that I could see applying to work situations. I’m left with a much better understanding on how to extract value from Claude for Excel. Best for those who have some familiarity with financial modeling and access to a Claude Pro subscription.

By Leo Vakhman on 5/28/2026

I've taken numerous AI for Excel and Finance course, but this one is by far the best! And the materials provided for the course with the Role Plays are amazing! HIGHLY recommend this course if you're in Finance.

By Abdulmajed Genbaz on 4/22/2026

Really recommend this course, it gave me a clear understanding on how to enhance my use of Ai in finance. Further, it provided a deep knowledge on about how to utilize and enable Ai to support you in specialized financial tasks. Thanks Dr. Carlos, really enjoyed the course and it added to me a lot.

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