Advanced MS Excel for Business & Professional Use

Why Attended

The fact is that Excel is the accountant’s, finance, and business professional’s best friend. Companies everywhere are overwhelmed by the abundance of unstructured and unclean data. Monthly, quarterly and annual closings are immensely data-driven and require moving and exporting data from ‘ERPs’ and databases to Excel. This hands-on course will advance your data massaging, modeling, integration, and automation skills to new levels. You will also master normalization and massaging of noisy data, preparation of reports, analysis, and reconciliation.

This is an Excel-based course allowing you to develop an exclusive level of expertise and add immediate value to your job and company.

Course Methodology

20% of the course is ‘design and structure’ focused while 80% uses MS Excel as a powerful tool to perform daily, monthly and periodic tasks. Groups and individuals will be required to complete exercises, case studies, and projects daily.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Apply Excel reporting expertise in business, finance, and accounting by enhancing data slicing and dicing, data massaging, and data analysis skills
Use pivot tables and pivot charts to perform automated report writing, analysis, and reconciliation most efficiently
Develop special flash and management reports by linking-up Excel with Access, web, text, SQL, and other databases
Repeat tasks and generate reports efficiently by recording, running, and editing macros
Acquire numerous tips and tricks that will improve working efficiency

Target Audience

Business, finance, and accounting professionals, senior and junior accountants, business analysts, research professionals, marketing and sales professionals, administrative staff, supervisors, general business professionals, and staff from any function who need to learn and apply state-of-the-art techniques to their daily business reporting, reconciliations, and analysis.

Target Competencies

Reporting, analysis, and reconciliation
Data modeling
Integration with external data sources
Automation and macros
Massaging of unstructured and noisy data

Note

This is a hands-on training course using laptops, all candidates are expected to come with their laptops.

Duration: 2 days

Class Session: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm each day including Breakfast and Lunchtime

Customize Your Training

This training is currently available as a residential/in-house option. If you prefer us to customize or have this training in-house at your location, kindly send your request via e-mail to:training@mctimothyassociates.com

Please Note

Mctimothy Associates Reserves the right to postpone or cancel a course due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control. In such cases, delegate(s) will be registered for the next run of the Course.

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