Core Excel Skills For Accountants and Financial Professionals (Free Online Course With Certificate)

Learn the core Microsoft Excel skills every accountant or financial professional needs in this free online course.

This course provides the fundamental Microsoft Excel skills that every accountant or financial professional requires. We cover important features from logical tests involving ‘IF’ statements to pivot tables and the new dynamic array functions. We teach you the key Excel features used daily in bookkeeping and giving financial presentations. This course provides valuable spreadsheet skills that can take your financial career to the next level.

What You Will Learn In This Free Course

• Solve problems and carry out logical tests and ‘IF’ statements
• Explain and carry out different types of lookups
• Calculate ‘SUM’ with multiple criteria
• Explain and demonstrate the benefits of working with tables
• Analyze data with pivot tables

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