Claude + Excel Just Changed Accounting Forever! (Tutorial)

Claude for accounting, tested on real company data - build a P&L and balance sheet in minutes, and watch Claude catch errors I'd never find by hand. If you run a business and dread the monthly accounting hand-off - general ledgers in, profit & loss, and balance sheet out - this is how I now use Claude for accounting work that used to eat half my day. I'm not an accountant by trade, and you don't need a coding background to follow along. VS Code for Claude Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/download Claude Code Excel Extension: https://claude.com/claude-for-microsoft-365 I run three real demos. 1) Turning five months of general ledgers into a P&L and a balance sheet -comparing Claude Code inside VS Code (it works straight off your files) with the Claude for Excel add-in (it writes the formulas, so you can trace every figure). 2) I drop in a new month with a deliberately hidden error and let Claude hunt it down - it found a 5,000 discrepancy buried in the ledger that would have taken me an hour to spot. 3) I hand Claude a full annual report - five PDFs, the kind you sign and file with the tax authority - and ask it to find anything that doesn't add up. What it found genuinely surprised me. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN • How to turn monthly general ledgers into a profit & loss statement and balance sheet - automatically, with the numbers actually tying out • Claude Code vs Claude for Excel for finance work: raw numbers vs traceable formulas, and when to reach for each • How Claude caught a hidden 5,000 discrepancy buried inside a monthly general ledger • How to have Claude review a full annual report (multiple PDFs) before you sign it and file it with the tax office • The setup: installing Claude Code in VS Code and the Claude for Excel add-in - plus using voice input with Wispr Flow to move faster • Why "challenge your AI with the hard, boring tasks" beats chasing shiny demos - and why this is where Claude for accounting really earns its keep TIMESTAMPS 00:00 The mon