Live Webinar K2's Excel Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Accountants

Overview

Excel is the accountant's tool of choice for analyzing and reporting financial data, yet many use time-consuming and error-prone processes to complete everyday tasks. Regardless of your experience level, if you use Excel, you need this course to learn more efficient and effective ways to work with Excel. In this course, you will discover countless tips, tricks and techniques to improve your general level of productivity, reduce the amount of time you spend on mundane tasks, such as formatting, and customize Excel for greater accuracy and efficiency. You will also learn valuable formula-building skills, best practices for linking Excel data from other worksheets and workbooks, and streamlining report generation and printing processes.

Your K2 instructor will reinforce key learning points throughout the program with practical real-world examples to improve your understanding and comprehension of the topics presented. This highly acclaimed course raws on over twenty-five year of experience delivering spreadsheet training to accounting and financial professionals, assuring you of the relevance and usefulness of the information and guidance provided during the programs.

Highlights

• Fundamental Excel techniques all accounting and financial professionals should know and use
• Creating date-based calculations in Excel
• How to create Excel templates
• Key options you should enable in Excel
• Linking data in Excel

Prerequisites

Fundamental knowledge of Microsoft Office Excel 2019 or newer

Designed For

Accounting and financial professionals who want to learn how to use Excel more efficiently and effectively.

Objectives

After attending this presentation you will be able to . . .

• Implement tools and techniques for formatting data in Excel, including multiline column headings, the Accounting Format, custom date and number formats and Conditional Formatting
• Customize Excel's user environment, including the Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar, adjust Excel's Options to improve efficiency and create and use Templates to increase efficiency and productivity
• Utilize various formula-building tools to create formulas more efficiently and create multiple types of formulas, including formulas to manipulate text and dates, formulas containing XLOOKUP functions, formulas that contain conditional calculations, and formulas that contain circular references
• Link data across multiple Excel worksheets and workbooks, update and manage links, and create sum-through formulas and rolling reports

Preparation

None