November 13, 2024
Essential Excel Conference

Event Overview
Join us for two back-to-back in-depth Excel courses designed for Accountants and Financial Professionals. Examine cutting-edge ways to store, retrieve, report, and analyze data using Excel and plugins. It will provide recommendations on how to use Excel and potential traps to avoid more efficiently. Participants are encouraged to bring their technology devices along with the interactive discussions, technology demonstrations, sample spreadsheets, and demo tools. Leverage Tables, shortcuts, and best practices to increase efficiency. Master the functions such as VLOOKUP, INDEX & MATCH, and Dynamic Array Formulas. As well as Formulas and uses such as Depreciation, Amortization, Interest, Payment, and more.
Event Sessions
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Day #1

Excel Functionality That Every Accountant Should Know
Excel is the default program for many financial professionals–and highly effective–if used correctly. It can be used for everything from simple tabular analysis to creating in-depth aggregate pivot tables. This course will give participants the necessary tools to turn data into meaningful information and will examine cutting edge ways to store, retrieve, report, and analyze data using Excel and plugins. It will provide recommendations on how to more efficiently use Excel and potential traps to avoid.Participants are encouraged to bring their technology devices to follow along with the interactive discussions, technology demonstrations, sample spreadsheets, and demo tools. Financial professionals will walk away from this course with valuable tools and insights into understanding, managing, and utilizing data in an organized and meaningful manner inside their organizations.

Excel Formula’s Accountants & Financial Professionals Need to Know
Excel is ubiquitous in the accounting and financial professionals’ workplace, but some of the best functions and features for accounting and financial professionals are unknown or underutilized. Leverage Tables, shortcuts, and best practices to increase efficiency. Master the functions such as VLOOKUP, INDEX & MATCH, Dynamic Array Formulas. As well as Formulas and uses such as Depreciation, Amortization, Interest, Payment, and more. In this course, we will even take you deeper into statistical analysis with formulas for everything from median, most, and standard deviation and regression analysis.
Event Instructors
Stephen Yoss
Stephen M. Yoss, Jr., CPA, MS, is a certified public accountant, partner and CEO of Devmatics, LLC, a continuing education instructor for financial professionals, a and a licensed pyrotechnician. While his interests and skills are varied, they all share a common thread—his love for and skill in finding technology-based solutions. In 2017, Stephen and Alex White formed Devmatics, LLC, a company focused on helping organizations develop technology strategies to streamline their business operations. He specializes in taking on high-difficulty, mission-critical organizational issues that require technological expertise and an ability to find solutions to problems that no one else can answer. With all of his clients, he emphasizes the need to embrace technology at every opportunity and utilize the latest technological trends and breakthroughs in order to gain a competitive advantage while increasing efficiency and productivity.
All of our seminars and conferences are NASBA approved according to the Statement on Standards for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Programs (Standards).
Your Registration Includes:
- ✓ Virtual live instructor lead presentation
- ✓ Q&A with the live instructor
- ✓ Course materials (PDF & Sample Materials)
- ✓ One year access to course materials
- ✓ Completion certificate