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Excel for Accounting Professionals Session 5: Error Trapping and Improving Lookups

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Member Price $125.00

Non-Member Price $149.00

Overview

Practical hands-on Excel learning exercises taught by a highly engaging expert in the field
You’ll develop your expertise with real-world Excel workbooks. Despite the popularity of VLOOKUP, it has its drawbacks. This session will address these drawbacks while offering alternatives.
You’ll walk through the VLOOKUP and IFERROR functions, and explore the following topics:

  • Improving the use of VLOOKUP with VALUE/TEXT
  • Improving the use of VLOOKUP with MATCH.
  • Moving beyond VLOOKUP with INDEX
  • Trapping errors with IFERROR

    Moving beyond basic Excel functions

    Grasping the limitations and possible enhancements for the VLOOKUP feature, along with methods to handle errors can elevate your proficiency in Excel.

    You'll also partake in hands-on Excel activities that showcase the integration of functions and their use in crafting spreadsheets, encompassing:
  • Combining functions to enhance flexibility
  • Utilizing functions for atypical data categories
  • Perfecting sophisticated lookup functions

    *Session 5 is one of eight sessions that is available as an individual session. Each session builds on the prior sessions, so you'll want to consider watching [Session 6: List Comparisons and Indenting] (https://www.aicpa-cima.com/cpe-learning/webcast/excel-for-accounting-professionals-session-6--list-comparisons-and-indenting) to further prepare to tackle real-world issues and build powerful workbooks.*

    Highlights

  • VLOOKUP function
  • MATCH function
  • INDEX function
  • Error trapping
  • IF function

    Prerequisites

    Working knowledge of Excel

    Designed For

    Accounting and finance professionals who’d like to improve their mastery of Microsoft Excel

    Objectives

    • Apply the use of VLOOKUP with MATCH to search information effectively in Excel.
    • Apply the use of VLOOKUP with VALUE/TEXT to increase VLOOKUP functionality.
    • Determine when to move beyond VLOOKUP with the INDEX function.
    • Identify ways to trap errors with IFERROR.
    • Use the IF function.
  • Non-Member Price $149.00

    Member Price $125.00