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Next Generation Excel: Advanced Business and Financial Reporting

Next Generation Excel: Advanced Business and Financial Reporting Training Courses in Abu Dhabi, Dubai
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Why Attend

It is a fact: Excel is the accountant's, finance and business professional's best friend! Companies everywhere are overwhelmed with the abundance of unstructured and unclean data. Monthly, quarterly and annual closing 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 adding immediate value to your job and company.

Course Methodology

20% of the course is ‘design and structure’ focused. 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 on a daily basis.

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 the working efficiency

Target Audience

Business, finance and accounting professionals, senior and junior accountants, business analysts, research professionals, marketing and sales, 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, which will be made available by Meirc for the duration of the course. For courses outside the UAE, participants are required to bring their own laptops with a fully working version of Microsoft Excel 2013/2016.

Associations

National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) : Meirc Training & Consulting is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website www.learningmarket.org

Location & Date

3 - 7 Dec, 2017
Dubai
English
Raffles Dubai
1 - 5 Apr, 2018
Dubai
English
15 - 19 Jul, 2018
Dubai
English
2 - 6 Sep, 2018
Abu Dhabi
English
Khalidiya Palace Rayhaan Rotana
16 - 20 Dec, 2018
Dubai
English
Meirc reserves the right to alter dates, content, venue and trainer.

Fees: US$

Per participant
US$ 4,600
Fees + VAT as applicable for 2018
(including coffee breaks and a buffet lunch daily)
Discount Plans & Cancellations Policy

This course is worth 25 NASBA CPEs.

Course Outline

  • Data massaging: tools and techniques
    • Consolidating data from separate files and sheets
    • Advanced data validation using lists, dates and custom validation
    • Cell management tools: Left, Right, Mid, Concatenate, Value
    • Naming, editing, and managing cells and ranges
    • Subtotal, Sumif, Sumifs, Sumproduct, Count, Countif, Countifs
    • Looking-up data, texts, and values using Vlookup
    • The incredible table-tools technique
    • Slicing dates into day names, weeks, week numbers, month names, years and quarters
    • Text to columns and dynamic trimming using Trim, Len
    • Managing texts and numbers using Replace, Find, and Substitute
    • Text change functions
  • Reporting, analysis and reconciliations using pivot tables
    • The 17 must learn rules
    • Creating pivot tables
    • Number formatting techniques
    • Designing report layout
    • Sorting in ascending, descending and more sort options
    • Filtering labels and values
    • Expanding and collapsing reports
    • Summarize data by sum, average, minimum, maximum, count
    • Show values as % of total and % of
    • Showing report filter pages
    • Inserting formulas
    • Date analysis
    • Copying pivot tables
    • Creating pivot charts
    • Dynamic chart labeling
    • Mastering the slicer
    • Linking pivot tables and pivot graphs with PowerPoint
    • Conditional formatting with pivot tables
  • Modeling and integration techniques
    • Perform 'what-if' analysis using spinner
    • Check box data modeling with 'if' function
    • Option button data modeling with 'if' function
    • List box data modeling with 'Choose' function
    • Linking Excel with text files
    • Linking Excel with databases (Access)
    • Linking Excel with multiple Excel files and SQL
    • Linking Excel with internet
    • Linking Excel with Excel
    • Scenario manager
  • Introduction to learning the ultimate tool in Excel: ''Macros''
    • Macro basics
    • Planning a macro
    • Designing your control board
    • Recording macro
    • Testing macro
    • Editing macro
    • Macro workshops
    • Advanced filter with macro
  • Tips and tricks in Excel
    • Data entry form
    • Custom list
    • Camera tool
    • Text to speech
    • Protecting worksheets and workbooks