K2's Excel Essentials for Staff Accountants

K2's Excel Essentials for Staff Accountants

K2’s Excel Essentials for Staff Accountants

Computer Software and Applications
8 CPE Credits
Course - K2's Next Generation Excel Reporting
23s-ees
In-Person, Webinar
Live
Intermediate
400 Minutes
Topics Learning Objectives Description Compliance

Major Topics

  • Best practices for creating and working with Excel workbooks
  • Effectively using Excel functions when creating formulas
  • The importance of PivotTables in modern reporting environments
  • Best practices for formatting your workbooks

Learning Objectives

  1. List five critical best practices associated with creating workbooks and constructing workbooks that comply with these principles
  2. Utilize PivotTables and PivotCharts to quickly summarize and present data without generating formulas
  3. Build sophisticated formulas to assist with reporting and analysis, including those that use functions such as VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, CHOOSE, XNPV, XIRR, PMT, IPMT, ACCRINT, and TRIM
  4. Create Tables from ranges of Excel data and identify the primary advantages of working with Tables
  5. Apply formats quickly and efficiently to Excel reports and understand the importance of features such as the Accounting format, Accounting Underlines, Precision as Displayed, Center Across Selection, and Flash Fill
  6. Work with date-oriented data in Excel and create calculations – such as those involving depreciation expense and interest accruals – involving the passage of time

Description

Staff accountants have specific needs when working with Excel. Unfortunately, their existing Excel knowledge often does not meet these needs. Chief among these are summarizing data quickly and accurately, generating accurate and aesthetically pleasing reports, and creating accounting-centric calculations for elements such as depreciation, amortization, and interest. By participating in this eight-hour session, staff accountants will gain the essential skills to maximize efficiency and accuracy when working with Excel.

This session begins with a quick overview of Excel best practices. It then progresses rapidly into discussions that address PivotTables, sophisticated formulas, Tables, formatting, and working with dates in Excel. Throughout the session, you will learn from accounting-centric examples to reinforce key learning points. In this session, you will learn in a “laptop-friendly” environment, and participants will have access to all the demonstration files. In sum, this seminar is a “must” for all staff accountants seeking to improve their efficiency and accuracy when working with Excel.

Compliance Information

Accounting and financial professionals who want to use the power of Excel in common business situations to summarize and analyze data None Computer Software and Applications 8 Credits November 2, 2022
Topics

Overview

Staff accountants have specific needs when working with Excel. Unfortunately, their existing Excel knowledge often does not meet these needs. Chief among these are summarizing data quickly and accurately, generating accurate and aesthetically pleasing reports, and creating accounting-centric calculations for elements such as depreciation, amortization, and interest. By participating in this eight-hour session, staff accountants will gain the essential skills to maximize efficiency and accuracy when working with Excel.

This session begins with a quick overview of Excel best practices. It then progresses rapidly into discussions that address PivotTables, sophisticated formulas, Tables, formatting, and working with dates in Excel. Throughout the session, you will learn from accounting-centric examples to reinforce key learning points. In this session, you will learn in a “laptop-friendly” environment, and participants will have access to all the demonstration files. In sum, this seminar is a “must” for all staff accountants seeking to improve their efficiency and accuracy when working with Excel.

Course Details

  • Fraud in small business environments
  • Internal control options in small business accounting software
  • Understanding the need for application controls and general controls
  • Common challenges associated with implementing appropriate internal controls in small business environments

  1. Cite internal control fundamentals, including definitions and concepts, types of internal control activities, and the need for internal controls
  2. Identify common small business control deficiencies and issues, including concentration of ownership and inadequate segregation of duties, and list five key risk areas for small businesses
  3. Recognize the common types of fraud schemes occurring in small businesses and implement internal control measures to reduce the threat of becoming a victim
  4. List the objectives and common deficiencies of small business accounting systems
  5. Define the purpose of general controls and list examples of typical control techniques in small businesses
  6. Implement technology tools to prevent and detect occupational fraud
  7. List opportunities to enhance security over information systems and sensitive data

Intended Audience — Business professionals responsible for internal control and fraud prevention and detection

Advanced Preparation — None

Field of Study — Auditing

Credits — 8 Credits

IRS Program Number –

Published Date – November 2, 2022

Revision Date –

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