Professional Excel

Our Professional Excel series are custom designed with with relevant examples, to kick start your Excel productivity in various professional domains. See our Training Assurance Plans for up to 30% savings!

Essential Excel for HR Professionals
Backed with relevant HR examples so that you can understand and apply them in your HR work immediately.
Duration: 1 day.
Essential Excel for Accountants
Practice essential accounting applications of important Excel functions and features to kick start your productivity.
Duration: 1 day.
Essential Excel for Financial Planners
Duration: 1 day.
Essential Excel for Marketing Managers
Packed with practical steps and real life Excel tips for marketing professionals.
Duration: 1 day.
Essential Excel for Business Owners
Provides the quick information you need to master Excel for running your business.
Duration: 1 day.


Essential Excel for HR Professionals

Handling huge lists of HR information in Excel
The most natural information you will deal with are personnel records. You will be shown how to load massive data into Excel, sort and filter this information to make sense of it.
Essential Excel functions
Being familiar with a useful library of Excel functions allows you to present data backed results to your management.
Presenting Summary Reports
We will show you how to create a quick summary report from a huge list of records using Excel’s Subtotals, and PivotTables.
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Essential Excel for HR Professionals
A quick-start Excel workshop designed for the HR professional. Backed with relevant HR examples so that you can understand and apply them in your HR work immediately.
Duration: 1 day.
Things to note:
Participants should have working knowledge of basic Excel functions, formulas and number formatting.


Essential Excel for Accountants

Important Accounting Excel Functions
Use VLOOKUP and Sum Wizard to manage various account codes. Accounting applications of SUMIFS, Text functions, Rounding functions and Array formulas.
Build checks & controls to eliminate account errors.
Managing Account Data
Learn how to import and export accounting data to and from your backend systems. Sort and Filter data to analyse and report accounts. Protect your workbooks and worksheets. Use Data Validations to emilinate account entry errors.
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Essential Excel for Accountants
Practice essential accounting applications of important Excel functions and features to kick start your productivity when you return to work.
Duration: 1 day.
Things to note:
Participants should have working knowledge of basic Excel functions, formulas and number formatting.


Essential Excel for Marketing Managers

Be a Marketing Genius with Excel
Use Excel to perform competitive analysis, lead tracking, forecasting, manage pricing and more:
* Competitive Analysis: Moving from Data to Information.
* Presenting and Reporting Your Data.
* Build a Marketing Mix.
* Trade Shows: Make the Most of them.
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Essential Excel for Marketing Managers
Packed with practical steps and real life Excel tips for marketing professionals.
Duration: 1 day.
Things to note:
Participants should have working knowledge of basic Excel functions, formulas and number formatting.


Essential Excel for Business Owners

Goal focused use of Excel
Use Excel to monitor:
* Profitability.
* Delivery schedules
* Financial status.

Forecast the future
Create trendlines in charts.
Create business scenarios to forecast the future.

Business Reporting
Use Pivot Table to report key performance indicators for your business.
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Essential Excel for Business Owners
Provides the quick information you need to master Excel for running your business.
Duration: 1 day.
Things to note:
Participants should have working knowledge of basic Excel functions, formulas and number formatting.

Ugly Real Economic Growth Chart from Singapore Statistics.

Singapore Statistics have the most amazing numbers on Singapore. Anything on our country’s GDP to how many handphones we have on average can be found. But the folks from SingStats seriously need to improve their charts.
Take a look here (http://www.singstat.gov.sg/stats/charts/econ.html#econA)

I could hardly make any sense out of these charts. They seems to be just thrown [...]

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A 10 year Balance Sheet Dashboard

Imagine you are the new CFO. You took over the position in the new firm and you want to look at the firm’s latest balance sheet.

You’ll probably want to see the firm’s 10 year balance sheet history.  It will be tough to make sense of things. What if you have a balance sheet dashboard instead? It [...]

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Klipfolio, a beautiful dashboard software. Free!

I have always been a fan of Klipfolio (http://www.klipfolio.com). This tiny software features beautifully made dashboards that run on your desktop. It’s useful and very clever. Download it, try it. It’s a low risk way to see how dashboards can work and it’s FREE!

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2015 Prediction: Google Docs is the new MicroSoft Office!

I just tried out Google Docs over the weekend and I like what I see. Google Docs is Google’s online version of wordprocessor, spreadsheet, and presentation software similar to Microsoft’s Word, Excel, and PowerPoint programs.
Let me explain why you should pay attention to Google Docs. It might change your life by the year 2015!
Firstly these [...]

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PowerUp Workshop: Making Beautiful Excel Charts

What if you could turn a drabby Excel chart:

into something like this?

For many Excel users, there is a need to produce clear, concise and even attractive charts in Excel without using expensive software. What is lacking are the clear techniques to do so. Compelled by this need, AEternus has designed a PowerUp Workshop to show [...]

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Death by PowerPoint

Excerpts from our workshop & PowerUp Seminar: PowerPoint Design Ideas for the Non Designer.
It is a fact that most presentations suck, and they suck for many reasons.

This seminar is about how to create great looking slides. Making bad slides is easy and we have seen many. Making good slides is easy too, but you need to [...]

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A gallery of Beautiful Charts for Excel part 4

I saw these couple of charts from the Standard Chartered Bank website.
Things I like about it:

Fresh colour scheme. Blues and greens work well together.
Bold titles that explain the intentions of each chart.
Each chart has an Increase/Decrease call out to emphasize the conclusion from the data trend.
Overall it’s a format that is pleasing to the [...]

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A gallery of Beautiful Charts for Excel part 3

The New York Times has the best illustrated charts I have ever seen. They are visually clear, easy to understand with good copy writing to explain the message behind a story. Note the use of blues and orange shades to give visual contrasts.

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3 simple red bands gave this mess of numbers and charts structure.!

A gallery of Beautiful Charts for Excel part 2

I have scoured the web and magazines for beautiful charts designs that we can use in our Excel reports. This will be part of a gallery I am creating. Do visit this blog for regular updates.

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Black, white, red and blue. What drama!

A gallery of Beautiful Charts for Excel part 1

I have scoured the web and magazines for beautiful charts designs that we can use in our Excel reports. This will be part of a gallery I am creating. Do visit this blog for regular updates.

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