Advanced Excel Training for Auditors

Introduction

Excel is positioned as the one and only most important tool for auditors to support them throughout their daily activities, whether it comes to risk analysis or control testing. Every day, auditors typically live and breathe in Microsoft Excel.

Livecode Trainings therefore offers a variety of training courses that will help auditors to get acquainted with basic, intermediate, advanced, expert and master skills within Excel.


Overview

Learn the basics of creating spreadsheets in Excel. Enter data, formulas, format and print workbooks.

Who should attend
The course is targeted excel uses to improve their Skills for today’s organization’s needs. It will equip participant with complex functions within Excel, including tools for analysing, linking and exporting data.


Prerequisites
Basic Windows, keyboarding and mouse skills.

Course Objective

  • Use Excel as audit software, able to perform most data analytics functionalities;
  • Request, extract and import data into Excel and validate data prior to analysis;
  • Make profound use of Pivot Tables, turning Excel into a effective data mining tool to facilitate retrieving outliers and more;
  • Use sampling techniques within Excel;
  • Create all types of graphs to pinpoint changes over time and other chart dimensions;
  • Use elementary macros to automate audit testing techniques on full population datasets.

Course Outline

  • Quickly seeing sum or average
  • Quickly filling a series
  • Adding subtotals
  • Joining text
  • Dealing with errors in formula results with missing values
  • Dealing with dates
  • Creating a random sample from a dataset
  • There is a match but excel cannot find it
  • Showing numbers in thousands
  • Turning your data on its side with transpose
  • Using conditional formatting
  • Using icon sets to mark values
  • Applying icons to only the top 10%
  • Sorting your data, also by color
  • Highlighting outliers
  • Analyzing results by date
  • Finding missing dates in data
  • Finding and analyzing records using complex filters
  • Formula auditing
  • Looking up data with VLOOKUP
  • Matching two lists
  • Finding duplicates or unique values
  • Finding transactions from the last week
  • Getting good records from bad data
  • Analyzing data with pivot tables
  • Replacing a thousand formulas with one
  • Retrieving many columns from the lookup range
  • Automating excel with Macros

Methodology

This instructor led training course is delivered using a blended learning approach and comprises of presentations, guided sessions of practical exercise, web based tutorials and group work. Our facilitators are seasoned industry experts with years of experience, working as professional and trainers in these fields.

All facilitation and course materials will be offered in English. The participants should be reasonably proficient in English.

Accreditation

Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be issued with a certificate of participation.

Training Venue

The training is residential and will be held at the Livecode Training Centre in Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya. The course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, lunch, and study visits.

All participants will additionally cater for their, travel expenses, visa application, insurance, and other personal expenses.

Accommodation

Accommodation is arranged upon request. For reservations contact the Training Officer.

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Training Fees

The course fees is KES 70,000.00 or USD 1,000.00 exclusive of VAT. The course fees covers the course tuition, training materials, two (2) break refreshments, lunch and study visits. Participants will cater for their travel and accommodation costs.

Payment

Payment should be transferred to Livecode Technologies account through bank on or before the course starting date. 

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Cancellation Policy

Payment for the all courses includes a registration fee, which is non-refundable, and equals 15% of the total sum of the course fee.Cancellation done 14days to the training will be fully refunded.

Tailor- Made

This scheduled course can also be tailored for your organization. To find out how our tailor-made training can help your organization, call our team on

Please Note: The program content shown here is for guidance purposes only. Our continuous course improvement process may lead to changes in topics and course structure.

Event Properties

Event Date 10-18-2021 8:00 am
Event End Date 10-22-2021 5:00 pm
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Cut off date 10-14-2021
Individual Price USD 1,000
Location Nairobi, Kenya
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