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CFO AI Compass
A Practical Guide for Finance Leaders
By Divya Kumar · 2026
A guide to AI investment decisions, oversight, and the changing work of finance teams.
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from business to law.
AI is changing how businesses operate, how professionals work, and how institutions make decisions. Kashyap’s books help readers understand these changes and respond thoughtfully.
Written with Alan Pelz-Sharpe and James M. Cooper, the books draw on experience in enterprise technology, legal practice, and public policy.
Questions about the books.
Which book should a business leader start with?
Practical Artificial Intelligence: An Enterprise Playbook introduces enterprise adoption. It offers a foundation for connecting business needs with AI technology.
Use the enterprise perspective to frame the question you are trying to resolve, then supplement it with newer developments in the technology. Kashyap’s later technology-stack article shows how contemporary applications depend on data, infrastructure and surrounding software, helping readers connect foundational learning with current implementation choices. Read more about today’s enterprise AI technology stack.
Which book is intended for legal professionals?
A Short & Happy Guide to Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers introduces AI concepts, their implications across legal practice, ethics and regulation.
For an accompanying discussion of responsible use, consider how principles become operational obligations. Kashyap distinguishes ethical objectives from the practices that implement them, a useful complement to learning about AI’s legal implications. The article helps readers examine the relationship between values, oversight and action. Read more about ethical and responsible AI.
Which book focuses on AI governance and regulation?
A Short & Happy Guide to AI Governance and Regulation examines industry standards, policies, laws and the institutions shaping AI oversight.
Readers can connect that broader perspective with the work of examining a particular system. Kashyap’s audit article describes the importance of scope, data assessment and documented findings. It provides a practical companion to the book’s treatment of oversight, without suggesting that one checklist covers every organization. Read more about examining AI systems.
Is CFO AI Compass written by Kashyap Kompella?
No. CFO AI Compass is by Divya Kumar and is published by AI Profs. It is listed separately from Kashyap’s co-authored books.
How should readers use an AI book as the field changes?
Use the books for grounding and perspective, and follow current writing for newer developments. The publication year is shown so readers can place each book in context.
Separate durable decision principles from details that depend on a particular generation of tools. When applying a book’s ideas, test current capabilities against your own requirements. Kashyap’s enterprise evaluation article provides a useful way to connect reading with a present-day assessment. Read more about evaluating current AI capabilities.
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