Improve Spreadsheets by Building Controls in Excel

Overview

In today’s data-driven world, spreadsheets serve as the backbone of business and personal productivity. However, creating complex and error-prone spreadsheets can lead to critical mistakes and inefficiencies. This course aims to equip you with the knowledge and tools to build robust spreadsheets, implementing a range of controls and safeguards to ensure data integrity, streamline processes, and maximize accuracy. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Highlights

The major topics that will be covered in this class include:

• Learn best practices when designing your spreadsheets
• How to create a proper worksheet structure
• Learn to use Excel's built in features to find errors
• How to create your custom controls to prevent and find errors
• Using links to quickly move to controls
• Using Conditional Formatting to highlight errors

Prerequisites

A good knowledge of using Excel

Designed For

Any Excel user that wants to learn how to create controls within Excel to improve accuracy

Objectives

After attending this presentation you will be able to ...

• Apply best practices when creating your spreadsheets
• Determine which controls you need to develop for your spreadsheets
• Use controls to build more accurate spreadsheets

Preparation

None

Notice

This course is provided by a third-party vendor. Please note that login instructions will not be available in the ‘My Upcoming CPE’ section of the NESCPA website. Instead, the login instructions will be sent directly to you via email by CPA Crossings. Upon completing the course, your hours will be recorded in the ‘My CPE Tracker’ section of the NESCPA website.