Automate Your Month End with Excel
What to expect?
Excel is the key tool used by accountants every day. Yet, most finance month end processes are using Excel like it is still 2003. As a result, working late and feeling stressed is common during the month end cycle. It doesn’t need to be that way.
Over the last 20 years, Excel features such as Tables, Power Query and Dynamic Arrays have been released. These enable users to automate month end tasks (without writing any code), and reclaim huge amounts of time.
This Masterclass will show you how to leverage these features. So you can spend less time at work, and more time doing what you love.
What you'll learn?
- Why the traditional month-end processes are inefficient
- The 7 stages of the reporting and analysis blueprint
- Structuring data for efficient reporting
- Reshaping any inputs into an optimal data structure
- Best practices in input management to enable automation
- Using dynamic parameters to easily repoint to new inputs
- Using Tables, Power Query and dynamic array formulas for automating processes
- Using the Refresh, Resize and Recalc cycle to automate journals, reconciliations, analysis and reporting
This Masterclass will take place on 24 September 2024 as an online-only course. The recording and all supporting files will be sent out to all participants at the end of the class.
Who is it for?
This Masterclass is for any finance professionals who want to stop working late at month end by automating their work. The typical roles/teams that could benefit from this masterclass are:
- Management Accountants
- Commercial Accountants
- Financial Planning & Analysis
- Financial Control
- Financial Reporting
Full Masterclass Details
What's included?
✔︎ What is “extract, transform, load,”?
✔︎ We’ll look at how this process works in Power Query and why it matters
✔︎ First steps for profiling and cleaning the data.
✔︎ How do you avoid memory-draining “Frankentables” and build relational data models and reports right from Excel?
✔︎ We’ll look at Power Pivot and DAX for data analysis in Excel
✔︎ What are dynamic array functions?
✔︎ Learn how to build quick, responsive formulas for easy analysis.
✔︎ Where is data analytics headed, and can Excel keep up?
✔︎ Learn how to use predictive analytics and artificial intelligence inside and outside of Excel to make the most of your data
✔︎ What is Python and why has it become the glue that binds today’s data analytics stack.
✔︎ Learn how to automate boring processes with Python
✔︎ Learn how to build compelling analyses with this programming language
Exclusive Masterclass sessions from leading figures stretch beyond the regular ones and dive deeper into Excel’s advanced functionality, covering a range of industry-relevant topics.
Master Excel Power Query essentials
Create your first Power BI report the right way
Building a business case finance model
Transforming your boring Power BI reports to AWESOME
data stories
Data analytics in modern Excel
Impactful data visualisation in Excel for powerful\
communication
✔︎ What is Power Query?
✔︎ Basic data loading
✔︎ Power Query editor overview
✔︎ Type of values
✔︎ Exploring queries and steps
✔︎ Basic data cleaning and transformation (removing columns & rows, filtering data, sorting, etc.)
✔︎ Practical example
✔︎ Removing duplicates and handling nulls
✔︎ Text transformation
✔︎ Date and time values
✔︎ Query load
✔︎ Practical example
✔︎ Data aggregation
✔︎ Merging and appending queries basics
✔︎ Different options for adding columns
✔︎ Pivoting and unpivoting data
✔︎ Practical example
✔︎ Key takeaways
✔︎ Addressing frequently asked questions
✔︎ Interactive Q&A session
Exclusive Masterclass sessions from leading figures stretch beyond the regular ones and dive deeper into Excel’s advanced functionality, covering a range of industry-relevant topics.
Master Excel Power Query essentials
Create your first Power BI report the right way
Building a business case finance model
Transforming your boring Power BI reports to AWESOME
data stories
Data analytics in modern Excel
Impactful data visualisation in Excel for powerful\
communication
Training requirements
To make the most out of this Masterclass, attendees will need to have some familiarity with Excel formulas such SUMIFS, VLOOKUP etc.
Users will required a windows PC running Excel 2021, or Excel 365.
About the trainer
Mark Proctor
Mark Proctor is a qualified accountant, consultant and blogger who has been applying spreadsheet-based solutions to solve real-world problems for over 20 years. Whilst working in the media, food, retail, and manufacturing sectors, he has built extensive dashboard, reporting, and process automation tools, to achieve greater business insight and efficiency. Mark Proctor is also the owner of Excel Off the Grid, which started in October 2016. The site focuses on teaching intermediate and advanced Excel techniques so workplace warriors can become more efficient in Excel.
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