2024 Excel Essentials for Today's Accountant: Become an Expert in One Day

Overview

This course explores the increasingly complex features of Excel that facilitate efficient data analysis. We will introduce numerous analytical methods and techniques by using practical examples to illustrate how to unleash the power of Excel when manipulating, analyzing and reporting information and dive into the powerful, but potentially under-utilized, capabilities of Microsoft Excel. Designed for sophisticated users willing to approach spreadsheets from a unique perspective, this program encourages users to challenge the status quo by considering opportunities to take acceptable spreadsheets to a new level.

Highlights

Using formulas to manipulate and transform data
Using formulas and reference formulas such as =VLOOKUP
Using pivot tables
Understanding Solver to perform multivariate analysis
Awareness of advanced functions
Creative methods for data manipulation
Using intellectual curiosity and professional skepticism to develop a problem-solving mentality
Real-life examples of innovative ways to analyze and report data with Excel
Using Excel to perform e-mail merges
Enhance creativity in your approach to developing Excel models Computer software and application

Prerequisites

A high level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel

Designed For

Practitioners, members in industry and other accounting professionals a better understanding of the advanced features of Microsoft Excel

Objectives

Apply a variety of advanced formulas to analyze and manipulate data
Identify solutions to data analysis problems
Identify how Excel can be used as a tool to address data analysis problems you encounter in your professional and personal endeavors
Evaluate lesser-known but powerful Excel functions
Assess your mindset of professional skepticism that helps you explore the edges of Excel’s capabilities