This compressive hands-on course is to provide a comprehensive collection of the features, functions, and techniques that offer the most benefits to CPAs and accounting professionals. Learners should have some basic ICT skills in order to learn this training course.
Many People believe that Excel is useful to accountants because accountants are number crunchers, and there is no better tool than Excel for crunching numbers and counting beans. However, number crunching is only a small part of Excel’s true utility for accountants. The true source of Excel’s power for us lies in the fact that much of our work recurring. That is, we repeat the same process or procedure each day, week, month, or quarter. Thus, when we use Excel correctly, and use the proper approaches, techniques features, and functions, we can perform a mechanical recurring task in as little as zero time.
This hands-on Excel course demonstrated the features and functions that enable you to use Excel in ways that your never thought possible. However, much of the content is dedicated to illustrating the features and functions that enable you to automate nearly any data-driven mechanical task, whether fully or partially. There is no substitute for human judgement, review, and thoughtfulness in your work, but if a task is purely mechanical, changes are better than not hat you’ll be able to automate it.