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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, her expe
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Excel Visualizations Charts and Graphs
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Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 1 - Sales and Purchases
1.5-3 hrs 62,128 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
Beginner Level
Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 1 - Sales and Purchases
485 liked this course
1.5-3 hrs
62128 enrolled
Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 2: Bank and Petty Cash
1.5-3 hrs 24,958 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
- Describe how to replenish the petty cash
- Describe how to close the cash book and calculate the balance carried down
- Recall how to reconcile the petty cash
- Recognize how to check remittance advice
- Explain about entering payments and receipts to the 3 column and analysis cash book
- Identify how to reconcile the bank
Beginner Level
Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 2: Bank and Petty Cash
261 liked this course
1.5-3 hrs
24958 enrolled
Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 3 - Double Entry Accounting
1.5-3 hrs 19,370 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
- 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
- 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
Beginner Level
Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 3 - Double Entry Accounting
221 liked this course
1.5-3 hrs
19370 enrolled
Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 4 - The Trial Balance and More
1.5-3 hrs 18,637 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
Beginner Level
Professional Bookkeeping and Accounting 4 - The Trial Balance and More
227 liked this course
1.5-3 hrs
18637 enrolled
Practical Excel 365 for Beginners
1.5-3 hrs 59,383 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
Beginner Level
Practical Excel 365 for Beginners
578 liked this course
1.5-3 hrs
59383 enrolled
Excel Visualizations Charts and Graphs
3-4 hrs 10,893 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
Beginner Level
Excel Visualizations Charts and Graphs
84 liked this course
3-4 hrs
10893 enrolled
Core Excel Skills For Accountants and Financial Professionals
1.5-3 hrs 41,184 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
Beginner Level
Core Excel Skills For Accountants and Financial Professionals
438 liked this course
1.5-3 hrs
41184 enrolled
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain for Everyday Users - Navigating and Using Web3
1.5-3 hrs 4,053 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
- Explain the role of a miner
- Explain smart contracts
- 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
- Classify wallets as hot, cold, custodial and non-custodial
- Identify and recognise transactions on a blockchain explorer
- Describe Decentralised Finance and Non-Fungible tokens
Beginner Level
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain for Everyday Users - Navigating and Using Web3
46 liked this course
1.5-3 hrs
4053 enrolled
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The Course Practical Excel 365 for Beginners It was very informative and practical with the activity sheets provided throughout. I would definitely follow the tutor on YouTube to learn more about Excel.
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Charmaine F.
Straightforward to follow and understand
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