Bernard Madoff Investment Securities Auditor - A Case Study in the AICPA Code of Conduct

SKU: 02-055-01-CPE
Credit Hours: 2
Level: Basic
CPE Category: Regulatory Ethics: Technical
Requires Prerequisites or Advanced Preparation: No
Delivery Method: PDF
Instructor: Joseph P. Helstrom, CPA

Course Description:
This is an introductory course covering the basics of Excel tools and techniques dealing with downloaded data in a text format. It covers converting numbers formatted as text to numbers usable by Excel functions, concatenation, text to Columns and specific Excel text functions to manipulate and analyze data.

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

Recognize the methods used to convert numbers formatted as text to numeric values and dates formatted as text to date values recognized by Excel
Define the LEFT(), RIGHT() and MID() functions in Excel
Recognize different concatenation functions and how to utilize them
Recognize the uses of Text to Columns
Identify how to evaluate text using the LEN function
Recognize functions available to clean text