CPE & Event Catalog

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.

Financial forecasting. Financial modeling. Cash forecasting. Microsoft excel modeling.

AU - C 700 Series. Significant changes to the auditor's report. SAS No. 134. SAS 135, omnibus statement on auditing standards. SAS 141. Audit evidence. Auditing accounting estimates and related disclosures. SAS 144.

Worksheets and workbooks. Worksheet navigation. Shortcut menus. Creating a workbook, and more.

Counting characters. Error functions. Importing data. Rounding values.

Powerful new functions and features in Excel, such as XLOOKUP and Dynamic Arrays. How to use "legacy" features and functions such as AGGREGATE. Creating effective forecasts in Excel.

Identifying weaknesses in traditional reporting processes. Using leading-edge features in Excel to improve reporting practices. How to work with Power Query to solve common reporting challenges. Adding Slicers and Timelines to your Excel-based reports.

Introduction to office scripts. Recording your first script. Integration with power automate.

Recognize how to combine and append tables or files. Importing data basics. Importing a text file and transforming it. Query settings. Appending data. Unpivot.

New features in QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online. Enhancing internal controls in QuickBooks-based environments. Improving financial and operational reporting when using QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online. Best practices for setting up companies.

Strategic management: an overview. Environment analysis. Industry and competitor analysis. Internal appraisal. Strategical formulation. Strategic choices. Strategic implementation issues. Strategic evaluation and control. Crafting global strategy.

The story. Integration with operations. The controlling landscape. Controlling top tips.

Management philosophies. Planning activities. Organizational structures. Leadership. Motivating employees. Corporate culture. Change management. Employee recruiting and appraisal.

Best practices for creating, editing, and managing PDFs. The process for creating and distributing PDF forms. Integrating PDFs with other applications. Securing your PDFs.

Rearranging a pivot table. Modify a pivot table. . Slicers. Group. Pivot table calculations. Auto formatting a pivot table. Pivot table charts. Data source.

IF Statements. IFs FUNCTION. AND, OR, and NOT. SUMIF. COUNTIF. SWITCH.

Numbers formatted as text. Commonly used text functions. Combining a text function and an if function. Other useful text functions. Working with dates.

Current audit requirements.

An overview of financial management. Financial statements and cash flow. Evaluating a firm's financial performance. The time value of money. Valuation of stocks and bonds. Capital budgeting: techniques and practice. Short-term financing. Debt financing. International finance.

Role of an accountant. Chart of accounts. General ledger and trial balance. Accounting procedures accounting for receivables. Accounting for investments, and more.