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Top 5 Excel Skills

From Excel rookie to Excel guru.

Created byLenny Wu
IntermediateUpdated Jun 18, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleRecognize importance of building robust models by using dynamic formulas instead of hard-links
  • check_circleDiscover benefits of using Pivot Tables in financial modeling
  • check_circleIdentify 5 crucial elements in financial modeling
  • check_circleDiscover how to build your own “robot” generating set reports by using macro

About This Course

This course teaches you how to create dynamic and professional Profit & Loss reports using real system data. You’ll learn how to avoid hard-coded numbers, use advanced Excel formulas, and apply pivot tables to make your reports more flexible and easy to update.

We’ll also cover how to build a complete financial model with separate pages for assumptions, data, reports, dashboards, and checks. Then, you’ll learn to automate regional report generation using VBA and consolidate them into a final corporate P&L report. This course is ideal for anyone who wants to improve their Excel reporting skills from basic to advanced.

Course Content

2 activities • 1 videos • duration: 1h 11m

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Section 11 videos • 1 quiz • 1.2 hours
  • videocamTop 5 Excel Skills
    Duration 71:41
  • quizReview Questions
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Section 21 quiz

Your Instructor

Lenny Wu

Financial Reporting Expert

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Lenny is Senior Financial Analyst at Ausenco. Lenny has over 15 years combined experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), financial reporting and modeling, and compliance auditing. Lenny supervises Adaptive Insights system budgeting, and is a CPA, CGA, and a Certified Adaptive Insights Professional and Certified Xero Partner. Lenny is a proponent for "One-click Reporting" for analysts and "Self-service Reporting" for executives. He has strong belief that reporting and closing should be hours rather than days or even weeks. Lenny also acted as local CPA chapter board officer and volunteered for Canada Revenue Agency as a Community Volunteer Income Tax Program consultant. Education MBA, Finance : George Washington University - SBPM (School of Business and Public Management) - [1998 to 2000]

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

4.6 out of 5
Student's Choice
80 reviews
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    Carol Haiyan D.
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    Very practical functions

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    Stephen I.
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    Good course but need more examples and depth to put into practice.

  • JS
    Jecelyn S.
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    This course is the best excel course I have taken so far. Looking forward to more courses from Lenny Yu. Thank you!!!

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    Nadir A.
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    Great COurse

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