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Microsoft Excel is one of the most important computer applications for accountants and finance professionals at all levels.
Power Query (Get & Transform in Excel 2016 and newer versions) within Microsoft Excel lets you connect, gather, transform, and combine data very efficiently, which will enable any finance, accounting, tax professionals to automate processes within Excel that are very manual and repetitive.
This is an introductory workshop that will help you develop the basic skills to start transforming data and automating Excel workbook using with Microsoft Power Query. After completing this workshop, you will be able to get data from various sources, prepare and analyze large amount of data efficiently using Power Query. With his background in Accounting and Tax, the Trainer will be using Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet or POS data in the examples and hands-on exercises. This will facilitate learning and allow you to directly apply your knowledge learned in the workplace.
Another workshop on Power BI will be conducted subsequently if you wish to develop your DAX and data visualization skills further after this session.
By the end of the workshop, you will:
Connect and transform data using Power Query
Connect and transform data using Power Query
Advanced data transformation techniques (M)
Analyze and visualize data using Power Pivot
Laptop Requirements
You are required to bring along an internet-enabled laptop (Windows only)*.
Your laptop should be installed with one of the following Microsoft office products**:
Office 2016
Office 2016
Office 2019
Office 2019
Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise
To check which Office product is installed on your laptop:
* Please note that Power Query is NOT available in Excel 2016 and Excel 2019 for Mac.
** Power Query is available in Excel 2013 as a separate add-in, which can be downloaded from the Microsoft website (Installation instructions will be sent to you upon request).
A basic knowledge in common Excel functions such as IF, SUMIF, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP
Finance, accounting, or tax professionals who would like to develop baseline knowledge and fundamental skills in Power Query within Microsoft Excel and learn about different ways to automate processes.
John Kim
John is a US Certified Public Accountant licensed in New York State. He leads the business intelligence service practice of A Tax Advisor Pte Ltd, and provides a variety of solutions (e.g., technology and data strategy, data transformation and integration, process improvement and automation, and data analytics services) and business process outsourcing services to corporate finance and tax departments.
John utilizes over fifteen years of combined experience in corporate financial reporting and analysis, corporate tax compliance and provision, executive financial dashboard management, technology and performance improvement, data modeling and warehousing, and ERP integration to assist corporate finance and tax functions with improving performance and managing business risk using business intelligence.
Before joining A Tax Advisor Pte Ltd, John was part of EY’s Tax Technology and Transformation group (formerly known as Tax Performance Advisory) in Washington, New York City and Singapore.
Prior to joining EY, John was a financial analyst in charge of the development of Business Objects tools, data modeling and warehousing, and executive financial dashboard management for a global manufacturing company in the United States.
This is a face to face event to be conducted on 18 March 2021.
