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Excel Accountant: Automating Financial Statements 2 Credits

Dec 05, 2024, 10:00 AM ET

Excel Accountant: Automating Financial Statements 2 Credits

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Dec 05, 2024, 10:00 AM ET

Learning Objective

  • To recognize what object type Microsoft Query considers worksheet tabs within Excel workbooks to be.
  • To recall how to determine if you’re using the Office 365 version of Excel.
  • To demonstrate knowledge of how and when to use the Name Manager command.
  • To explore Excel Query and modify an Excel Query
  • To identify how to consolidate multiple entities

Course Overview

Traditionally spreadsheets or Excel sheets have been the dominant way of managing many business processes. This covers everything – finance to employee schedule and beyond. Despite the contemporary times of AI, BIG data, and cloud computing. However, the seemingly long and endless process can be made short and easy with Excel automation.

Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, will teach you how to create dynamic financial reports—for any month of the year—on a single worksheet. Many Excel users build a worksheet for each month of the year, which can be inconvenient and tiresome to revise. Rather than using such a cumbersome method, David demonstrates how to apply the VLOOKUP, OFFSET, and SUM functions to quickly create accounting reports that allow you to toggle to any reporting period with just a couple of mouse clicks. In addition, David shares effective ways to export data from your accounting package so you can create a “set-and-forget” link to your accounting data in Excel.

David demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and second, in the subscription-based Office 365 version of Excel. David draws your attention to any differences in the older versions of Excel (2019, 2016, 2013, and earlier) during the presentation as well as in his detailed handouts. David also provides an Excel workbook that includes most of the examples he uses during the webcast.

Office 365 is a subscription-based product that provides new feature updates as often as monthly. Conversely, the perpetual licensed versions of Excel have feature sets that don’t change. Perpetual licensed versions have year numbers, such as Excel 2019, Excel 2016, and so on.

This course covers the following Major Topics: 

  • Creating a 12-month P&L report in QuickBooks Desktop.
  • Using Microsoft Query to retrieve data within an Excel workbook.
  • Modifying an Excel query and using helper formulas.
  • Creating an in-cell list of report periods using the MONTH function.
  • Building out a report, consolidating/departing reports, and integrating check figures.
  • Managing data connection security prompts and swapping out source documents for consolidation of multiple entities.

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2

Course Level

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Instructional Method

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Pre-requisites

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About Instructor

David Ringstrom -CE/CPE Courses for Accountant, CPAs & more
David Ringstrom , CPA (US)

President, EXCEL Accountant

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I own an Atlanta-based training and consulting firm that helps businesses nationwide streamline accounting challenges. Our specialties include:

  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Access
  • Sage 50/Peachtree Accounting
  • QuickBooks

Our services include training, technical support, accounting automation, and problem solving. I have spoken at conferences or meetings for these organizations:

  • National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts
  • Institute of Real Estate Managers
  • Georgia Society of CPAs
  • South Carolina Society of CPAs
  • Georgia Government Finance Officers Association
  • Atlanta chapter, American Society of Women CPAs
  • Perimeter Chapter, Georgia Society of CPAs

I teach over 200 live webinars annually on Microsoft Excel across roughly two-dozen training providers. I am available for in-house training or select conference engagements as well.

I am the co-author of Idiot's Guide to Introductory Accounting. I've published hundreds of freelance articles on various topics, including Lotus 1-2-3, Quattro Pro, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office Accounting, QuickBooks, Peachtree Accounting, and more.

I serve as the technical editor for several books in Wiley's Dummies series, including QuickBooks for Dummies, Quicken for Dummies, Peachtree for Dummies, and more.

Specialties: Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic for Applications, Sage 50, Peachtree Accounting, QuickBooks, Microsoft Office Accounting, freelance writing, training, business consulting

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Daniel Regan, CPA (US)

David Ringstrom's Excel teaching method is EXCELlent. If you want to learn how to do things in Excel whether you're a beginner or a pro, he's the guy for you. This webinar is a little more advanced and provides really cool ways to perform complicated tasks in Excel like connecting an Excel file to a source data file and automating the cleansing of that source data.

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Danny Heatherson, Accountant/Bookkeeper/Tax Professionals

Great course to show the power of Excel data connections. If you can't get an ODBC to the source data tables, use the tools shown in this webinar to get you going in the right direction.

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