Dashboard and Report Design Principles Using Excel
Overview
Transform your data presentation skills with our comprehensive course on creating impactful dashboards and reports using Excel. This workshop is tailored for professionals who:
- Regularly produce or update dashboards and reports
- Struggle with confusing or overly complex reporting tools
- Seek to streamline varied reporting styles across their organization
- Aim to establish a consistent, replicable "house style" for reporting
- Want to impress stakeholders with clear, user-friendly data presentations
Through a combination of theory and hands-on practice, you'll learn the fundamental principles that make reports and dashboards easy to understand. We'll distill these concepts into a set of practical rules and guide you through their application in Excel.
Highlights
- Principles of Visual Design for Dashboards and Reports
- Chart Design for Rapid Understanding
- Table Design for Efficiency
- Effective Use of Commentary
- Strategic Layout Techniques
- Trend Analysis Methods
- Developing Organizational Design Standards
- Excel Application Techniques
- Critical Review Skills
- Best Practices for Data Presentation
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Anyone interested in, or involved in designing or producing, reports or dashboards using Microsoft Excel
Objectives
- Understand the principles of good dashboard and report visual design
- Be able to review and identify issues with existing information dashboards and reports
- Know how to apply those principles using Excel
Preparation
None
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 Accounting Continuing Professional Education Network (ACPEN).
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Bernie Smith
Bernie Smith, founder of Made to Measure KPIs, trains and coaches businesses to develop meaningful KPIs and present their management information in the clearest possible way to support good decision-making.
His approach has been adopted by many organisations, including Airbus, HSBC, UBS, Lloyd’s Register, Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Scotland, LloydsTSB and many others. He has written twenty books on KPIs, regularly tops this category on Amazon and is a frequent key-note speaker on performance measurement.
Earlier in his career, Bernie, who qualified as a professional engineer, worked as a consultant leading teams delivering exceptional operational improvement in blue-chip companies using Lean and Six Sigma approaches. This broad industry experience has given him a unique perspective when it comes to developing KPIs to improve organisational performance.
Bernie lives in Sheffield, UK, with his wife Liz, two children and some underused exercise equipment.
Non-Member Price $159.00
Member Price $129.00