K2’s Excel Best Practices
Computer Software and Applications
8 CPE Credits
Major Topics
- Best practices associated with creating Excel workbooks, including managing workbooks
- How to secure Excel workbooks
- Collaboration options and best practices in Excel
- Effective reporting techniques in Excel
Learning Objectives
- List critical spreadsheet design fundamentals
- Identify techniques used to minimize data input errors
- Utilize Excel’s Table feature as a foundational component of spreadsheets
- Identify and implement three different methods for consolidating data
- Utilize various Excel features, such as Go To Special, to solve specific spreadsheet issues
- List and apply four techniques for sharing an Excel workbook and collaborating with others
- Implement different practices for auditing and error-checking Excel workbooks, including Trace Precedents, Trace Dependents, and Formula Auditing
- Identify the advantages of working with Defined Names in Excel
- List and apply six techniques for securing Excel data
Description
As spreadsheets evolve, so must your creating, editing, and auditing practices. In this program, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the best ways to work with Excel by learning best practices associated with Excel spreadsheets in each of the following areas: creating and editing Excel workbooks, securing Excel workbooks, collaborating with others in Excel, and reporting on data contained in Excel.
Today’s best practices for Excel differ significantly from those used in the past, and you will learn the best ways to work with Excel spreadsheets in this “must-see” CPE program. Course materials include relevant examples to enhance your learning experience. Join us for this program to help you utilize Excel fully.
Compliance Information
Overview
As spreadsheets evolve, so must your creating, editing, and auditing practices. In this program, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the best ways to work with Excel by learning best practices associated with Excel spreadsheets in each of the following areas: creating and editing Excel workbooks, securing Excel workbooks, collaborating with others in Excel, and reporting on data contained in Excel.
Today’s best practices for Excel differ significantly from those used in the past, and you will learn the best ways to work with Excel spreadsheets in this “must-see” CPE program. Course materials include relevant examples to enhance your learning experience. Join us for this program to help you utilize Excel fully.
Course Details
- Extracting and importing transaction data from bank feeds and matching to receipts
- Overview of selected expense and corporate credit card reporting and management platforms
- Major fraud schemes associated with expense reporting
- Select at least two types of employee expenses that are identified as very risky by the course
- Identify at least two common expense reimbursement fraud schemes.
- Choose responses that explain how bank feeds are different from data extraction/OCR applications
- Identify at least two comprehensive expense reporting solutions discussed in detail during the course which offer both OCR data extraction and mobile receipt capture
- Explain how artificial intelligence can be used to identify unusual items in expense reports
Intended Audience — Business professionals seeking to improve expense reporting process
Advanced Preparation — None
Field of Study — Computer Software and Applications
Credits — 2 Credits
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Published Date – January 1, 2025
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