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Excel University Lesson 204: Excel Efficiency: Advanced Reporting Techniques

Master conditional lookups, date automation, and dynamic reporting labels to build bulletproof workbooks.

Created byJeff Lenningworkspace_premium
IntermediateUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Excel University Lesson 204: Excel Efficiency: Advanced Reporting Techniques

What You'll Learn

check_circleApply the indent command to maintain lookup formula integrity
check_circleReplace VLOOKUP with SUMIFS for dynamic, error-resistant reporting
check_circleCalculate period start and end dates using EOMONTH and DATE functions
check_circleConstruct dynamic report labels using concatenation and text formatting
check_circleIntegrate comparison operators into SUMIFS for range-based data extraction

About This Course

This course focuses on advanced Excel techniques for creating automated, hands-free reporting workbooks. It covers structural best practices like label indentation, the use of SUMIFS for flexible lookups, and sophisticated date manipulation using functions like EOMONTH and DATE. Participants will also learn to integrate text concatenation to build dynamic report headers and complex criteria strings for conditional summing, ensuring formulas remain consistent and resilient to structural changes in data tables.

Topics Covered:

  • Label indentation for consistent lookup formulas
  • SUMIFS function for conditional data aggregation
  • Date serial number processing and math
  • EOMONTH function for period boundary calculation
  • Date part extraction with MONTH and YEAR
  • Dynamic date construction using the DATE function
  • Text string concatenation and formatting
  • Comparison operators in conditional summing

Your Instructor

Jeff Lenning
Jeff Lenning

CPA and Microsoft Certified Trainer

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In his live CPE training sessions, Jeff Lenning CPA has shown thousands of CPAs and accounting professionals across the country how to use Excel to streamline their work and become more efficient. Several publications have featured his Excel articles, including the Journal of Accountancy and California CPA Magazine. After graduating from the University of Southern California, Jeff began his career in the audit practice at Arthur Andersen’s Orange County office. He was a senior financial analyst at Gateway computers and the accounting manager at Interpore Cross International. In 2000, he founded Click Consulting Inc., a technology-consulting firm that specializes in Excel training, consulting, development, and personal coaching. He is a past president of the CalCPA OCLB Chapter, the former chair of the California CPA State Technology Committee, co-chair of the California CPA OCLB Chapter Technology Committee, a board member of the California CPA OCLB Chapter, on the California Society of CPAs Council, and an instructor for the AICPA and the California CPA Education Foundation. A Microsoft Office Certified Excel Expert, he is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer. He was recently recognized with the California CPA Education Foundation's Award for Instructor Excellence.

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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.

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