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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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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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