Automate Your Workflow: VBA for Accounting & Finance Professionals (Half-Day Course)

Are you tired of repetitive tasks slowing down your day in Excel? Drowning in data and longing for deeper insights?  This introductory course provides a strong initial foundation to unlock the power of macros to streamline your workflow and revolutionize the way you work.

This practical course is designed specifically for accounting and finance professionals with a strong foundation in Excel, but little-to-no programming experience. You'll learn the fundamentals of VBA, a programming language built right into Excel, to automate time-consuming tasks and perform complex calculations with ease.

Imagine being able to:

• Automate data entry and formatting: Eliminate manual processes and free yourself for higher-level analysis.
• Build custom functions: Create powerful formulas tailored to your specific accounting or finance needs.
• Consolidate data from multiple sources: Effortlessly combine information from different spreadsheets and reports.
• Generate dynamic reports and charts: Present your data in a clear and impactful way with a few clicks and share it with the stakeholders that need it.
• Enhance error checking and data validation: Ensure accuracy and reduce the risk of mistakes.

Through basic building blocks and real-world examples, you'll gain the practical skills to immediately apply VBA to your daily work. No prior coding experience is required, just a solid understanding of Excel and a desire to boost your efficiency.

By the end of this course, you'll be well on your way to becoming a VBA pro, saving valuable time, and extracting maximum value from your data!

• Learn why it’s so important to automate repetitive work
• Learn the habits of experts that routinely automate their work
• Learn the building blocks of macros in visual basic that are highly transferrable to other programming languages
• Save dozens of hours a year so you can work on the fun stuff that helps grow your career

When it comes to using Excel, working efficiently isn’t just a nice-to-have anymore, it’s crucial to keep up in an increasingly changing world. With the pace of technology and innovation continuing to accelerate, it’s imperative to work efficiently with the right tools and knowledge so you don’t get left behind or slow down your teammates.

This course will help you identify how you can automate common processes in your workflows where you’re wasting valuable time and energy, and how to get started automating them. Whether it’s with small shortcuts that quickly add up over time or automating voluminous work in one bulk step, you’ll free up time so you can expand your skills, work on more valuable initiatives, and enjoy more work-life balance.