K2’s Excel PivotTables for Accountants
8.00 Credits
Member Price $250.00
Price will increase by $25 after 6/6
Non-Member Price $375.00
Overview
Many business professionals consider PivotTables the most powerful feature in Excel, yet most accounting and financial professionals do not use them in their day-to-day activities. If you are ready to learn how to take advantage of PivotTables or extend your existing knowledge of PivotTables, then plan to participate in this course. You will learn how to build PivotTables, group data inside PivotTables – including grouping options for fiscal periods – and create user-defined calculations in your PivotTables. You will also learn advanced PivotTable techniques, including building PivotTables that consolidate data from multiple data ranges and PivotTables that connect dynamically to external databases and financial accounting systems. Additionally, you will learn to take advantage of other Excel features associated with PivotTables, including Slicers, Power Query, and Power Pivot. You will be a master of Excel PivotTables at the end of the day!
This course is for you if you have been leery of working with PivotTables or have struggled to realize their many benefits. With some information, guidance, and coaching from your K2 instructor, you will be ready to use PivotTables to analyze and report on extensive data sets in a fraction of the time you spend completing such tasks.
Highlights
• PivotTable fundamentals, including Recommended PivotTables and the six elements of PivotTables
• Formatting PivotTables
• Advanced PivotTable techniques and options, including consolidation PivotTables, user-defined calculations, and working with Power Pivot
• Analytical techniques available in PivotTables
Prerequisites
Fundamental knowledge of Microsoft Office Excel 2019 or newer
Designed For
Accounting and financial professionals who want to use the power of Excel PivotTables to analyze and summarize data
Objectives
• Identify the six main elements of a PivotTable report and their use when creating PivotTables
• Create PivotTables and manipulate data in PivotTables using grouping techniques, modified Field Settings, user-defined calculations, and sorting and filtering options
• Import and link data from external data sources into PivotTables; additionally, use Tables and Data Models as data sources for PivotTables
• Create Consolidation PivotTables to consolidate data from multiple data sources in Excel
• Construct PivotTables in enterprise-class organizations using Power Pivot and Slicers
• Analyze data in PivotTables using tools and techniques, such as sorting, filtering, Excel’s GETPIVOTDATA function, and PivotCharts
• Apply specific PivotTable methods to solve problems in areas of PivotTable formatting, creating multiple PivotTables from a single data source, grouping PivotTable data into fiscal reporting periods, and keeping PivotTable row order intact
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Lawrence McClelland, K2 Enterprises
Mac McClelland, an attorney and accounting professional, is an associate of K2 Enterprises of Hammond, Louisiana, and Network Management Group of Hutchinson, Kansas. Mac was formerly the director of the Centre for Financial Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, where he lived and worked for seven years from 1990 to 1996. He was also a member of the faculty of the Advanced Business Programme, ranked in the top 100 MBA programs in the world by The Economist, specializing in business strategy and strategic management accounting. He gained his practical experience in information systems with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and has an established practice in business and technology consulting. Services offered include technology assessments and plans, accounting software selection, advanced cost system analysis and design, LAN/WAN design and implementation, and customized business and technology training. Mac has taught hundreds of continuing professional education seminars to accountants and business managers in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Southeast Asia. His presentations are highly rated, and he has won several awards for teaching excellence. Mac has been published in leading business and practitioner journals, including Tax Ideas, Computers in Accounting, Journal of Accounting Education, Chartered Accountants Journal of New Zealand, and the top-rated Journal of Accounting Research.
Non-Member Price $375.00
Member Price $250.00