K2's Excel PivotTables for Accountants

Overview

You could pay $0 for this course!

Many business professionals consider PivotTables the most powerful feature in Excel, yet most accounting and financial professionals do not use them in their day-to-day activities. If you are ready to learn how to take advantage of PivotTables or extend your existing knowledge of PivotTables, then make plans to participate in this course. You will learn how to build PivotTables, group data inside PivotTables - including grouping options for fiscal periods - and create user-defined calculations in your PivotTables. You will also learn advanced PivotTable techniques, including building PivotTables that consolidate data from multiple data ranges and PivotTables dynamically connected to external databases and financial accounting systems. Additionally, you will learn to take advantage of other Excel features associated with PivotTables, including Slicers, Power Query, and Power Pivot. You will be a master of Excel PivotTables at the end of the day! This course is for you if you have been leery of working with PivotTables or have struggled to realize their many benefits. With some information, guidance, and coaching from your K2 instructor, you will be ready to use PivotTables to analyze and report on extensive data sets in a fraction of the time you spend completing such tasks.

This course qualifies for reimbursement through the state’s Workforce Training Express Fund. Firms/companies with fewer than 50 staff can be reimbursed up to 100% of the cost of training and firms/companies with 50-100 employees can be reimbursed up to 50% of the cost of training. You must register for the course and apply for reimbursement through the Workforce Training Express Fund website a minimum of three weeks prior to the start of the course to be eligible. The course code for this program is C-3087. To learn more, click here or contact Julia Ekelund at jekelund@masscpas.org.

Highlights

• PivotTable fundamentals, including Recommended PivotTables and the six elements of PivotTables • Formatting PivotTables • Advanced PivotTable techniques and options, including consolidation PivotTables, user-defined calculations, and working with Power Pivot • Analytical techniques available in PivotTables

Objectives

• Identify the six main elements of a PivotTable report and their use when creating PivotTables • Create PivotTables and manipulate data in PivotTables using grouping techniques, modified Field Settings, user-defined calculations, and sorting and filtering options • Import and link data from external data sources into PivotTables; additionally, use Tables and Data Models as data sources for PivotTables • Create Consolidation PivotTables to consolidate data from multiple data sources in Excel • Construct PivotTables in enterprise-class organizations using Power Pivot and Slicers • Analyze data in PivotTables using tools and techniques, such as sorting, filtering, Excel’s GETPIVOTDATA function, and PivotCharts • Apply specific PivotTable methods to solve problems in areas of PivotTable formatting, creating multiple PivotTables from a single data source, grouping PivotTable data into fiscal reporting periods, and keeping PivotTable row order intact