PowerPoint for Business in 60 Minutes

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Reviewed

March, 2024

Learning Objectives

To identify the most useful slide transitions and animations for business presentations.
To use the morph transition to draw the audience’s attention.
To create a “zoom” summary slide to jump to user-selected sections of slides.
To analyze how to animate charts to highlight key points.
To embed a Microsoft Excel table in a PowerPoint slide.
To create a video with commentary of their PowerPoint presentation.

Course Description

Microsoft PowerPoint has been around for nearly 35 years, and I am sure you are familiar with it and have experienced many PowerPoint presentations – some good; many extremely tedious!

Creating a business presentation in PowerPoint presents several challenges and there is a danger of “death by PowerPoint”. The speaker of this webinar recently attended a meeting which was supposed to be a planning discussion but which the person leading the meeting insisted on introducing with a PowerPoint presentation of 60 slides – mostly bullet points! He was hardly in the mood for action planning after that assault on his senses.

PowerPoint is good for presenting business results or for a training course, but you need to plan your slideshow carefully to avoid bullet-point boredom and to keep your audience engaged and interested. Less is more in a slide show so it is important to use techniques and effects which will help engage your audience and draw their attention to the points that matter.

The purpose of this Online CPE computer software and application course is to teach you PowerPoint techniques that you may not be familiar with, and which will help you improve the impact of your business presentations.

The speaker Ross Maynard in this CPE/CPD webinar will cover six key topics that will help you produce more impactful business presentations:

The best slide transitions and animations for business presentations
The morph transition to make the narration of an agenda, or similar list, or a team photograph extremely slick and professional
The Zoom effect to create a summary slide with hyperlinks to zoom into the section that you or your audience choose
How to animate charts to highlight the key points you want to bring out
How to embed Excel tables with slicers into PowerPoint, and why PowerPoint is not developed enough to make this useful for a business presentation
How to turn your PowerPoint presentation into a video. This is the technique I am most often asked how to do.

Overview

Transitions and Animations

4 mins
Aardman animations

12 mins
Animating charts

27 mins
Delivery time to townsville branch

37 mins
Conclusion : Excel tables and slicers in powerpoint

44 mins

Webinar Qualifies For

1.5 CPE Credit of Computer Software and Applications for Certified Public Accountants (CPA-US)
1.5 General Credit of Computer Software and Applications for Accountant/Bookkeeper/Tax Professionals
1.5 CPD Credit of Computer Software and Applications for CPA in Canada
1.5 CPE Credit of Information Technology for Certified Internal Auditors (CIA)
1.5 CPE Credit of Computer Software and Applications for Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
1.5 CPE Credit of Business Process Improvement for Certified Management Accountants (CMA)
1.5 CPD Credit for Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
1.5 CPE Credit of Information Technology for Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM)
1.5 CPD Credit of Software and other process controls for Certified Information Technology Professionals (CITP)
1.5 CPD Credit for Chartered Accountant - ICAEW
1 CE Credit of Computer technology for Maryland Tax Preparer (MRTP) (Approval No. GEHNZ-T-01111-22-S)
1.5 CE Credit of Information Technology (inc. Excel) for Certified FP&A Professional (FP&A)
1.5 CPD Credit for Chartered Accountants - Scotland
1.5 CPE Credit of Computer Software and Applications for Iowa Licensed Public Accountant (IA-LPA)
1.5 CPD Credit for CPA - Ireland
1.5 CPD Credit for Chartered Accountants - Ireland (CAI)
1.5 CPE Credit of Computer Software and Applications for Maine Licensed Public Accountant (ME-LPA)
1.5 CPE Credit of Computer Software and Applications for Delaware Licensed Public Accountant (DE-LPA)

About Instructor

Ross Maynard

Managing Director, Ideas2Action Process Excellence Ltd

My philosophy is to inspire, challenge and support change. I have nearly 30 years’ experience as a business author and consultant.

As a consultant, I specialise in process improvement based on the Lean philosophy. I facilitate improvement teams and provide expertise in performance measurement and management; problem solving; and process improvement.

As well as delivering webinars for MyCPE, I develop courses and webinars for the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) in the UK and other specialist business and finance providers.

I live in Scotland, near Glasgow, with my wife, daughter and Cocker Spaniel.

Additional Information

Duration

1.5 Hours

Course Level

Basic

Instructional Method

QAS Self Study

Pre-requisites

None

Advance Preparation

None

FAQ’s

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Ratings and Review

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Thom Arnsperger, CPA (US)

Class was enjoyable - and a pleasant surprise. It addressed PowerPoint capabilities that I wasn't familiar with and can truly make a high impact presentation. Important to realize that this more of an exposure presentation and will require (as stated) working with the software to really be able to exploit the features addressed.

Maria Cipriano, CPA (US)

The webinar was very useful

Joannie Celeste, CIA, Others

Very relevant and helpful.

Adam Schneider, CPA (US)

Super helpful!

Wenda Mistak, CPA (US)

This was an informative presentation with techniques to make business presentations more effective and appealing. I enjoyed the speaker's style of presentaiton.