Excel for Accounting Professionals Session 5: Error Trapping and Improving Lookups
Overview
As popular as the VLOOKUP function is, it has limitations. This session walks through the limitations and suggests how to improve the VLOOKUP function. We then discuss how to move beyond VLOOKUP altogether. We spend some time trapping errors with the IFERROR function, which was first rolled out with Excel 2007. The webcast is designed with time for you to work along. This hands-on workshop is an effective way to learn Excel since you’ll be completing the same exercises demonstrated by the instructor. A link will be provided, so you can download the necessary Excel files. During the webcast, the instructor will provide time for you to complete the exercises using your Microsoft Excel for Windows. For each topic presented, the instructor explains the topic and demonstrates it with Excel exercises. Then, the instructor provides time for you to complete many of the same exercises. Finally, the instructor demonstrates the solutions for all the exercises in the practice workbook and then moves to the next topic. This format allows you to work along rather than just watch passively, enabling you to immediately practice the skills demonstrated.
Prerequisites
working knowledge of Excel
Objectives
- Improve the use of VLOOKUP with MATCH.
- Improve the use of VLOOKUP with VALUE/TEXT.
- Move beyond VLOOKUP with INDEX.
- Trap errors with IFERROR.
- Use the IF function.
Notice
This course is offered by a 3rd party vendor and will not be accessible in the My CPE Tracker section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by AICPA.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Jeff Lenning
Jeff Lenning is in charge of the day-to-day management and operations of Click Consulting. He is a nationally recognized speaker, author, and trainer, and provides Microsoft Excel and Access training to enterprise clients and provides continuing education to CPAs on technology related topics including Excel and Access. The Journal of Accountancy and other publications have featured many of his technology related articles. Lenning is heavily involved in the accounting profession. He is a former chair of the California CPA State Technology Committee, the 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. He is a Microsoft Office Certified Excel Expert. He began his career at Arthur Andersen in the Orange County office in the audit practice. He then worked at Gateway computers as a Senior Financial Analyst, and then at Interpore Cross International as the Accounting Manager. In 2000, he started Click Consulting, a technology consulting firm which specializes in network support and web-application development.
Non-Member Price $142.00
Member Price $118.00