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Basic Excel Skills for Accountants

Boost productivity and precision. Master Excel's essential features to streamline accounting tasks, ensure data integrity, and generate robust financial insights.

Created byDavid Ringstrom
BeginnerUpdated Jul 11, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleName the feature that enables you to select only cells that you can see within a range of data.
  • check_circleState how to write a formula that sums a cell across multiple sheets and includes future sheets automatically.
  • check_circleRecall the menu in Excel where the Table feature resides.
  • check_circleState the location of the Group and Ungroup commands within Excel's menu.

About This Course

Many accounting professionals are unaware of Excel features and functions that improve spreadsheet accuracy and efficiency. In this presentation, author and Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, contrasts the SUM, SUBTOTAL, SUMIF, and SUMIFS functions, along with the Subtotal feature. You'll also learn how to use the Table feature to streamline sifting through lists of data, create self-expanding charts, and PivotTables that have much better integrity.

Topics covered:

  • Inserting totals into lists using the Subtotal feature.
  • Filtering without filter buttons.
  • Using the Table feature to improve spreadsheet integrity.
  • Toggling cell lock status with a custom shortcut.
  • Creating a filter shortcut on the Quick Access Toolbar.
  • Using SUMIF to total values based on a single condition.
  • Avoiding repeated formulas using the Data Table feature.
  • Preserving formulas using hide and protect options.
  • Filtering tables quickly using the Slicer feature.
  • Collapsing or expanding worksheet columns or rows with the Group command.
  • Formatting subtotals without affecting hidden rows.
  • Using the SUM function to drill through multiple worksheets.

 

Who should attend:

Professionals seeking to use Microsoft Excel more effectively.

Course Content

2 activities • 1 videos • duration: 1h 40m

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Basic Excel Skills for Accountants1 videos • 1 quiz • 1.7 hours
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Final Assessment1 quiz

Your Instructor

David Ringstrom

CPA, Author, Professional Excel Spreadsheet Trainer and Consultant

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David H. Ringstrom, CPA, is the author of Microsoft 365 Excel for Dummies, and a nationally recognized instructor who has taught over 2,500 live webinars. His Excel courses are based on over 30 years of consulting and teaching experience. David’s catchphrase is “Either you work Excel, or it works you,” so he focuses on what he sees users don’t, but should know about Microsoft Excel. His goal is to empower you to use Excel more effectively. David has authored or co-authored 10 books, including Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures, QuickBooks Online for Dummies, and Idiot's Guide to Introductory Accounting.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.9 out of 5
Student's Choice
143 reviews
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    Viviane S.
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    Shows difference/advantages of certain features/functions to improve what we think is good/what we are used to - provides useful tips.

  • DR
    Delia R.
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    Excellent teacher! Just awesome!

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    David B.
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    Excellent course

  • MD
    Maninder D.
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    very informative

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