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Excel Accountant: What-If Analysis 2 Credits

Oct 24, 2024, 11:00 AM ET

Excel Accountant: What-If Analysis 2 Credits

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Oct 24, 2024, 11:00 AM ET

Learning Objective

  • To identify when to use Excel’s Goal Seek feature versus Solver.
  • To describe how to use the Data Table feature in Excel to compare calculation results based on varying inputs.
  • To define how to make one worksheet serve multiple purposes by way of Excel’s Scenario Manager.

Course Overview

This informative online Excel CPE course by David Ringstrom, CPA, draws your attention to the What-If Analysis tools available within Excel’s Data menu. David explains how and when to make use of Excel’s Scenario Manager as well as how to use the Data Table feature to compare calculation results based on two or three inputs. He also shows you how Excel’s Goal Seek can be implemented to perform basic what-if analyses, allowing you to solve for a single value.

Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and second, in the subscription-based Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) version of Excel. David draws your attention to any differences in the older versions of Excel (2021, 2019, 2016, 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.

Microsoft 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 2021, Excel 2019, and so on.

This online Excel CPE webinar covers the following key topics:

  • Avoiding the need to write repetitive formulas using Excel’s Data Table feature.
  • Comparing the results of multiple scenarios within a pivot table.
  • Contrasting Excel’s Data Table feature with traditional approaches used in spreadsheets.
  • Enabling Excel’s Solver add-in for more complex what-if analyses.
  • Enhancing the Summary Report generated by the Scenario Manager with range names.
  • Exploring Excel’s Goal Seek feature, which can be used to solve for a single missing input.
  • Application of Scenario Manager, Forecast Sheet, Solver features, Conditional Formatting, and IF function.

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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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David Johnson, CPA (US)

An excellent and challenging lesson using IF statements, What-if-analysis, solver, and forecasting. Thank you for your presentation and challenging me to a deeper understanding of the above tools. I did hope there would be more examples using the Forecast Sheet but will work from your examples to develop a deeper understanding. Thank you. Excellent and challenging!

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Martha Smith, Masters (Accountancy)

The instructor was knowledgeable, delivered the material in a comprehensive and clear manner, and included visuals for the steps that were taken in the process. I found his teaching style very engaging and easy to follow. Great job!!!

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