Excel Data Analysis Tools FLEXCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Member Price $98.00
Non-Member Price $113.00
Overview
It can be difficult to extract any meaningful information from the large amounts of data stored in an Excel worksheet, or to sort through multi-variable problems. This course provides a number of solutions to these issues by showing how to use PivotTables, what-if analysis, data tables, goal seeking, and the Scenario Manager and Solver tools. This course reveals how to extract the maximum amount of usable information from large data sets, as well as provide ready solutions to seemingly intractable analysis problems.
Highlights
Pivot tables. The worksheet ribbon. Pivot table data analysis. Goal seeking.
Prerequisites
None.
Designed For
CPAs, CFPs, financial advisers, and other accounting professionals.
Objectives
Explain the characteristics of the ribbon system. Describe the circumstances under which a PivotTable is most useful. Identify the nature of properly normalized data. Specify the options available for altering the appearance of a PivotTable. Identify the different types of charts that can be constructed from a PivotTable. Specify the different types of filtering tools that can be applied to a PivotTable. Identify the construction steps involved in setting up a data table. Explain how Excel tools can be used to resolve constraint analysis situations.
Preparation
None.
Notice
This is a FlexCast (no exam required) and may be viewed only Monday - Saturday, 5am - 5pm PT. You may take up to one year from the date of purchase to complete the course. Pause your FlexCast and resume at a convenient day during the hours above. Partial credit for 2+ credit courses: If you are unable to complete the course in one sitting, partial credit can be awarded (minimum of one credit). To earn the remaining credits, you must return later and start the course from the beginning. Use chat to ask questions of a subject matter expert during the program.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Steven Bragg, Western CPE
Steven M. Bragg, CPA, is a full-time book and course author who has written more than 70 business books. He provides Western CPE with self-study courses in the areas of accounting and finance, with an emphasis on the practical application of accounting standards and management techniques. A sampling of his courses include the The New Controller Guidebook, The GAAP Guidebook, Accountants’ Guidebook, and Closing the Books: An Accountant’s Guide. He also manages the Accounting Best Practices podcast.
Steven has been the CFO or controller of both public and private companies and has been a consulting manager with Ernst & Young and an auditor with Deloitte & Touche. He holds an MBA from Babson College, a Master of Finance from Bentley College, and a BA from the University of Maine (summa cum laude).
Non-Member Price $113.00
Member Price $98.00