Surgent's Microsoft® Excel® 2019: Exploring Useful Excel Functions (EXUF)

Overview

Microsoftr Excelr 365/Excelr 2019: Useful Functions for CPAs is a one-lesson intermediate level course that guides you through creating formulas using Financial, Date & Time, Math & Trig, Statistical, Lookup & Reference, Database, Text and Logical functions.

Prerequisites

Experience working with Excel 2016 in the Windows operating system environment

Objectives

• Identify multiple ways to create a formula using one or more functions
• Select Financial functions to calculate the internal rate of return, net present value, future value, present value, payment and depreciation
• Select Date & Time functions to insert date and time components
• Select Math & Trig functions to calculate the sum of a range of numbers, find a random number and the positive square root of a number, and round calculations to a specific number of places
• Select Statistical functions to find the average, maximum, minimum, count, median and mode of a range of numbers plus the top five numbers
• Select Lookup & Reference functions to find specific data and document worksheet formulas
• Select specific criteria and Database functions to calculate the sum, average, maximum value, minimum value and number of cells containing numbers in a database field
• Select Text functions to improve worksheet appearance
• Select Logical functions to perform calculations based on one or more tests

Highlights

• IRR, NPV, FV, PV, PMT, SLN, SYD, and DB Financial functions
• NOW, TODAY, DATE, MONTH, DAY, YEAR, TIME, HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND, WEEKDAY, and NETWORKDAYS Date & Time functions
• SUM, RAND, SQRT, and ROUND Math & Trig functions
• AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, COUNT, MEDIAN, MODE.SNGL, and LARGE Statistical functions
• VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, and FORMULATEXT Lookup & Reference functions
• DSUM, DCOUNT, DAVERAGE, DMIN, and DMAX Database functions
• PROPER, SUBSTITUTE, and LOWER Text functions
• IF, AND, and IFNA Logical functions
• Using the Quick Analysis feature to quickly insert row and column totals is also discussed