Faith Omekaodinma, a senior manager in Tax, has over 12 years' experience in corporate tax compliance. Her main passion, however, is teaching, her first and former profession before joining the firm. When tasked to facilitate a client’s internal training on two tax concepts — Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax (CAMT) and Pillar Two — she was excited to start developing materials to create an engaging session.
Simply put (thank you, Copilot), CAMT makes sure big companies pay a minimum tax of 15%, even if they have deductions or credits that might allow them to pay less. Pillar Two, meanwhile, is a global minimum tax that seeks to confirm that multinationals pay tax at the appropriate rate in every place they do business. Both rules help make tax play fair.
For some of her client’s team, this would be their first introduction to CAMT and Pillar Two. "It was important for them to understand the tax rules so they could better understand their cashflow.” By understanding the tax regulations, the client’s team could more effectively gather information to keep their company in compliance with domestic and international tax laws. With her teaching cap on, she knew she had to create engaging, effective materials — this time in the form of a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation — to capture and maintain her audience’s attention. Having used Copilot a few times before as a pilot user, Faith knew it could help assist her in creating an impactful slide deck for a 30-minute training session. “I look at Copilot like an assistant. It helps me do my job better and it’s something I can use to start and then I can improve my work,” shares Faith.
After getting the green light to use Copilot by her engagement team, Faith started by gathering existing resources and presentations that she and her team had developed and used for their own internal training on CAMT and Pillar Two. Although detailed, they were developed for hour-long presentations, and she needed to develop a deck for a 30-minute presentation for an entirely new audience.
Faith opened a blank Microsoft PowerPoint document and pasted in slides from her existing presentations. Then, she opened Copilot within PowerPoint and prompted it to help revise the content for a 30-minute presentation. Her prompt session with Copilot went something like this*:
Faith: I need a slide deck to present at a client internal training session on CAMT and Pillar Two. This slide deck features content from previous presentations used for 1-hour sessions. However, I need this deck to be revised for a 30-minute session.
Please create two background slides: one on CAMT and one on Pillar Two. The audience for this presentation is a group of tax and accounting professionals with varying degrees of knowledge of CAMT and Pillar Two.
Copilot generated two slides providing an overview of both tax concepts.
Faith: This is a great start. Please also add the computation of CAMT to the background slide. Create a new slide that compares Pillar One to Pillar Two.
Copilot's assistance in creating concise, engaging slides was instrumental, providing Faith with a foundation that she could and did modify to deliver a successful client training. Copilot was useful in several areas of the slide deck development directly in PowerPoint:
Faith’s usage of GenAI and the human oversight, review and judgment she applied exemplify what it means to be human-led and tech-powered. Her experience with Copilot helps showcase the transformative power of GenAI tools in enhancing work processes, helping her create an engaging, concise and effective training session on complex tax concepts. The tool not only saved her time but also helped her deliver content in a digestible format for her audience. GenAI tools like Copilot, when prompted with strong inputs and reviewed with human oversight, can transform the way we work.
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