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Paula Guilfoyle is the brains and the driving force behind The Excel Club. A certified public accountant, she has worked across a broad range of industries as an accountant, internal auditor and financial controller. Guilfoyle is passionate about sharing her knowledge and teaches students from around the globe that wish to upskill in bookkeeping, accounting, Excel and Power BI.

While working in finance in 2010, she noticed a skills gap among accountants in the area of Excel. This motivated her to produce her first Excel course, which was aimed at accounting professionals looking to upskill. This desire to teach soon grew into the enormously successful Excel Club, which now caters to over 90,000 students across 168 different countries. In 2020 and 2021, ...
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Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 1 - Sales and Purchases
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Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 1 - Sales and Purchases
1.5-3 hrs 52,200 learners
By The Excel Club
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Outline the importance of bookkeeping and its links to accounting
  • Define ‘assets’, ‘liabilities’, ‘revenue and ‘expenditure’
  • Explain the principles of the sales tax
  • Outline the importance of an invoice and identify its important details
  • Describe the purpose and primary data information offered by a financial statement
  • State the role of the Accounts Receivable (AR) department
  • Outline the purpose of ‘cross totting’ and ‘creditor reconciliation’
  • Discuss the process of recording sales, credits, purchases and returns in daybooks
  • Describe the purchasing process and the documents involved
  • Discuss the process for approving a purchase invoice
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Accounting
Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 1 - Sales and Purchases
1.5-3 hrs
52200 enrolled
Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 2: Bank and Petty Cash
1.5-3 hrs 19,963 learners
By The Excel Club
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Describe how to raise petty cash vouchers
  • Explain how to enter petty cash transactions to the petty cash daybook
  • Describe how to close the daybook and calculate the balance carried down
  • Recall how to reconcile the petty cash
  • Describe how to replenish the petty cash
  • Recognize how to check remittance advice
  • Explain about entering payments and receipts to the 3 column and analysis cash book
  • Describe how to close the cash book and calculate the balance carried down
  • Identify how to reconcile the bank
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Accounting
Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 2: Bank and Petty Cash
1.5-3 hrs
19963 enrolled
Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 3 - Double Entry Accounting
1.5-3 hrs 15,048 learners
By The Excel Club
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain how double-entry transactions work
  • Describe the process for preparing and recording transactions in T-accounts
  • Identify the steps involved in transferring sales and sales return transactions from the daybooks
  • List the steps to transfer purchase and purchase returns transactions to the general ledger and control accounts
  • Discuss the reason for transferring the left and the right side of the cash books to the general ledgers
  • Explain what happened when you close the control accounts
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Accounting
Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 3 - Double Entry Accounting
1.5-3 hrs
15048 enrolled
Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 4 - The Trial Balance and More
1.5-3 hrs 14,699 learners
By The Excel Club
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Describe the process used to manage the journal day books
  • Discuss the need to collect taxes
  • Outline how to prepare a payroll journal from gross and net pay
  • Explain what control accounts are used for
  • Describe the process for creating and maintaining control accounts
  • List the steps needed to prepare a trial balance
  • Identify possible issues when the trial balance does not balance
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Accounting
Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 4 - The Trial Balance and More
1.5-3 hrs
14699 enrolled
Practical Excel 365 for Beginners
1.5-3 hrs 46,371 learners
By The Excel Club
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain how to open, save and navigate a workbook
  • Discuss why you would edit the quick access toolbar
  • Explain how to copy, cut and paste your data
  • List the different Autofill options available and their uses
  • Discuss the use of Freeze panes
  • List the different elements that can be inserted into a workbook and how they can be presented
  • Discuss the use of different views when using worksheets
  • Outline the purpose and process of sorting and filtering data
  • Outline the steps involved in previewing and printing a table
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Data Analysis
Practical Excel 365 for Beginners
1.5-3 hrs
46371 enrolled
Excel Visualizations Charts and Graphs
3-4 hrs 8,449 learners
By The Excel Club
You Will Learn How To

Distinguish between different chart types in Excel

  • Explain the use of the different chart types in Excel
  • Identify and format chart elements
  • Summarize data with common charts
  • Summarize data with less common charts
  • Recognize the differences between good and bad chart design
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Microsoft
Excel Visualizations Charts and Graphs
3-4 hrs
8449 enrolled
Core Excel Skills For Accountants and Financial Professionals
1.5-3 hrs 28,519 learners
By The Excel Club
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Solve problems and carry out logical tests and ‘IF’ statements
  • Explain and carry out different types of lookups
  • Calculate ‘SUM’ with multiple criteria
  • Explain and demonstrate the benefits of working with tables
  • Analyze data with pivot tables
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Excel
Core Excel Skills For Accountants and Financial Professionals
1.5-3 hrs
28519 enrolled
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain for Everyday Users - Navigating and Using Web3
1.5-3 hrs 2,949 learners
By The Excel Club
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Distinguish between Web1, Web2 and Web3
  • Describe how a blockchain works
  • Classify wallets as hot, cold, custodial and non-custodial
  • Explain the role of a miner
  • Identify and recognise transactions on a blockchain explorer
  • Explain smart contracts
  • Describe Decentralised Finance and Non-Fungible tokens
  • Distinguish between Fungible and Non-Fungible assets
  • Discuss how to buy and sell cryptocurrency with fiat (traditional currency)
  • Describe the difference between a swap or DEX and a central exchange
  • Explain how to use a swap
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Finance
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain for Everyday Users - Navigating and Using Web3
1.5-3 hrs
2949 enrolled
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