Your coursework · Session 5 · 3½ hours
Guide: Forecast next quarter from last year’s numbers
Use your AI assistant on a real piece of your own work: a simple forecast with the assumptions written down.
The assignment
A simple forecast with the assumptions written down, built from your own work rather than a made-up example.
Why it helps. This is work you do anyway. Doing it once with the assistant, and checking what it gives you, shows you where it saves time and where you still need to look closely.
You’ll hand in: A simple forecast with the assumptions written down, a short reflection and the declaration.
Steps
- Start a new chat and paste your working-context note from session 1.
- Click Copy prompt, paste it in, and add the material the assistant needs.Only paste information you are allowed to use at work.
- Work through the assistant’s questions, one at a time.
- Check what comes back: two facts or figures by hand, and the tone read aloud.If it can’t say where something came from, treat it as unchecked.
- Ask it to fix what’s wrong, then copy the final version into a document.
- Paste it into the box below.
Worked example
Open it →Common mistakes
- Trusting the numbersCheck two figures by hand against the source.
- Describing the dataGive it the table itself, not a description.
- No assumptionsAsk it to list what it assumed, and write them down.
Marking
All three must be true.
- It’s real workFrom your own job, with anything private taken out
- You checked itYou say what the assistant got wrong and what you changed
- Someone could use itA colleague could pick it up tomorrow and get on with it
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