Paul BarnhurstFP&A Expert Empowering Finance Professionals to Excel Everday

Financial modeling is faster with AI-driven tools.

16 Oct 2025

Watch on YouTube

A short YouTube demo by Paul Barnhurst showing how the AI tool Claude Opus speeds financial modeling. The speaker walks through a Claude Opus-generated deferred revenue schedule in a live spreadsheet view, highlights verification checks (contract amount vs total recognized using a formula), notes rounding behavior, and points out the monthly recognition columns and timing metadata (dates and seconds taken for steps). UI interactions like freezing panes and scrolling are shown.

All right, so it started. We can see here. It did some thinking. It created a to do list with five items. All made sense. This is Claude Opus. I've applied the deferred revenue schedule. We're looking at it. We can see. Hey, let me pull the dates it walked through each step, how many seconds it thought for. So what we have here, deferred revenue schedule. And I'm just going to put a freeze pane so we can kind of scroll over so you can see. It did a check right here to make sure the contract amount and the total recognized, which you did. A formula equals each other. And what I like is here it did do a little bit of a round, and then it has each of the months all the way out.