Improve Spreadsheets by Building Controls in Excel

Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Webcast or Webinar, Online
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (opens at 2:00 PM) EST
2Credits
Accounting and Auditing

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$89.00 Regular Price
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$119.00 Regular Price

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Course Type: Webcast
Course Code: 25/CX44845
Level: Intermediate
Vendor: CPA Crossings, LLC
Field of Study: Auditing

Overview:

In today's data-driven world, spreadsheets serve as the backbone of business and personal productivity. However, creating complex and error-prone spreadsheets can lead to critical mistakes and inefficiencies. This course aims to equip you with the knowledge and tools to build robust spreadsheets, implementing a range of controls and safeguards to ensure data integrity, streamline processes, and maximize accuracy. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Objectives:

After attending this presentation you will be able to ...

  • Apply best practices when creating your spreadsheets
  • Determine which controls you need to develop for your spreadsheets
  • Use controls to build more accurate spreadsheets

Major Topics:

The major topics that will be covered in this class include:

  • Learn best practices when designing your spreadsheets
  • How to create a proper worksheet structure
  • Learn to use Excel's built in features to find errors
  • How to create your custom controls to prevent and find errors
  • Using links to quickly move to controls
  • Using Conditional Formatting to highlight errors

Major Topics:

The major topics that will be covered in this class include:

  • Learn best practices when designing your spreadsheets
  • How to create a proper worksheet structure
  • Learn to use Excel's built in features to find errors
  • How to create your custom controls to prevent and find errors
  • Using links to quickly move to controls
  • Using Conditional Formatting to highlight errors

Designed For:

Any Excel user that wants to learn how to create controls within Excel to improve accuracy

Prerequisites:

A good knowledge of using Excel