Frequently asked questions

Sheet 1 assumes comfort with spreadsheets and basic office finance tasks — reconciling a bank feed, reading a budget variance, or coding a vendor invoice. You do not need programming skills or a finance degree. Later sheets expect familiarity with ChatGPT, Copilot, or Claude; we provide orientation but you should obtain employer approval to use AI tools with non-public data.

Both. Core cohorts meet at our Jasper Avenue studio in Edmonton; parallel online sections use the same scenario packs and portfolio proof rubrics. Hybrid corporate workshops combine on-site Alberta sessions with virtual follow-ups for distributed finance teams.

Open cohorts cap at 12–18 learners so facilitators can review AI output quality during classify and report stages. Corporate teams may book private cohorts up to 16 participants with customised drills mapped to their category trees.

Team workshops start around C$4,800 for up to sixteen learners for a two-day sheet intensive, excluding travel outside Edmonton metro. Multi-sheet retainers and capstone tracks are quoted after a scoping call. All proposals itemise deliverables for procurement reviewers — we are vocational training, not a software licence sale.

Cancellations more than fourteen days before cohort start receive a full fee refund minus a C$35 administration charge. Within fourteen days, fees convert to credit toward the next 2026 cohort of the same sheet. No refunds after materials access opens for self-paced modules. Corporate contracts follow signed statement-of-work terms.

We collect contact details and enrolment information with explicit consent for stated purposes — responding to enquiries, delivering courses, and issuing certificates. Data is stored in Canada where possible; some email and video vendors may process in the United States under contractual safeguards. You may request access, correction, or deletion subject to legal retention requirements. Privacy questions: [email protected]. See our full Privacy Policy, including Alberta PIPA references for provincial learners.

We do not teach get-rich-quick methods, hands-off wealth schemes, crypto or forex trading, stock picking, investment advisory, MLM recruitment, guaranteed savings claims, or personal life coaching. We do not provide tax filing, legal compliance sign-off, or regulated accounting services. AI income or billable-work side-hustle framing is outside our scope — we focus on finance operations craft inside organizations.

Cohorts practice with ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude using sanitized scenario data we supply. Learners may optionally replicate exercises in employer-approved environments. We discuss prompt engineering, AI categorization limits, and AI reconciliation support patterns — always with human review before anything touches a live ledger.

Clash describes challenge-based finance learning — structured drills where your method meets messy real-world data and you revise until the sheet is honest. It is not aggression, combat, gambling, or a promise to clash your way to wealth. Think rehearsal studio, not arena.