Internal Control Techniques for Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets

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• Internal Control Techniques for Microsoft Excel
  Spreadsheets

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• Instructor Profile
• David H. Ringstrom is a CPA
  and owner of Accounting Advisors, Inc., an
  Atlanta-based spreadsheet consulting firm that he
  started in 1991. David speaks at conferences and
  presents dozens of webinars annually on Excel and
  other topics. He has written numerous articles on
  spreadsheets, some of which have been published
  internationally.
• He has served as the technical editor for
  other 30 books on accounting software, and is the
  Tech Editor-at-Large for Accounting WEB and Going
  Concern. David offers Excel training and
  consulting services nationwide.

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• Description
• In this session Excel expert
  David Ringstrom, CPA shows you how to implement
  internal control features within your Excel
  spreadsheets. David shows various ways to control
  user's actions within an Excel spreadsheet, as
  well as protect worksheets and workbooks from
  unauthorized changes. The presentation will also
  demonstrate techniques that can help
  "future-proof" spreadsheets to minimize
  maintenance when changes are required.
• In this session David teaches from Excel 2010.
  The techniques shown, work in the same fashion in
  Excel 2007 and 2013, and his handouts include
  alternate instructions for Excel 2003 where
  applicable. 

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• Objectives of the Presentation
• Improve the integrity of spreadsheets with
  Excel's VLOOKUP function.
• Compare and contrast IFNA, IFERROR, and ISERROR,
  and see which versions of Excel support each of
  these worksheet functions.
• Create an in-cell list by way of Excel's Data
  Validation feature.
• Restrict users to entering dates within a given
  range, or before/after a given date.
• Minimize ongoing spreadsheet maintenance with
  Excel's Table feature.
• Specify a range of whole numbers that a user can
  enter in a worksheet cell.
• Make it harder for users to circumvent data
  validation, and easily identify when they attempt
  to do so.
• Toggle the locked status of a worksheet cell on
  or off by way of a custom shortcut.

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• Why Should you Attend?
• Attend this webinar to learn about
  techniques that allow you to audit Microsoft
  Excel workbooks. This webinar covers areas such
  as Excel's Data Validation feature, VLOOKUP
  function, Worksheet and Workbook protection,
  Excel's Very Hidden worksheet feature. 
• Who can Benefit?
• Accountants
• Finance specialists
• CFOs
• Controllers

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• Live Session - How it works?
• Username and Password will be sent to you 24
  hours prior to the webinar
• Presentation handouts in pdf format will be
  mailed to you
• Login to the session using the username and
  password provided to you
• Get answer to your queries through interactive
  QA sessions via chat
• Get certification of attendance.
• Recorded Session - How it works?
• A link will be provided to you upon purchase of
  the recorded session
• Please click on the link to access the session
• Presentation handouts in pdf format will be
  mailed to you
• Get certification of attendance.

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