Auditors use Microsoft Excel extensively, not just as a spreadsheet, but also as a data management, manipulation and analysis tool, yet many do not have the relevant Excel skills that will help to save them some of their scarcest resource - time.
Atcor and Alchemex have combined their expertise and resources to jointly develop a groundbreaking one-day interactive programme that empowers auditors and accountants with specialised Excel skills.
Excel for Auditors aims to save auditors valuable time by providing training on how to use this powerful tool more effectively and efficiently when working with audit information, such as a fixed asset registers or inventory lists.
The Excel for Auditors programme is not simply a tour of functionality, but focuses on developing advanced understanding and practical know-how that will result in significant time-savings each month. The learning is experiential; accordingly, all exercises and examples use real audit scenarios to demonstrate application in practical situations. Facilitators are flexible and open to audience-specific questions.
By the end of the workshop delegates will have an excellent knowledge of the audit-related functions within Excel that will enable audits to be performed more effectively and efficiently, resulting in time savings and cost savings, as well as assisting in the management of audit risk.
The new 'Excel for Auditors' course is a relevant and value-adding CPD workshop and completion of the workshop will contribute eight CPD hours for SAICA registered members.
Established in 1996, Atcor is an education, training and consulting group, which specialises in accounting and finance. Atcor is accredited with FASSET (Financial and Accounting Services SETA) and with various professional accounting bodies such as CIMA and ACCA. Atcor is an Empowerdex level one rated black owned company, where 51% of shareholding lies with black persons as per definition of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act.
Established in 2001, Alchemex is a software vendor, training and consulting business servicing the rapidly growing Business Intelligence industry. The core software product, Alchemex, is a reporting tool that delivers relevant information in Microsoft Excel at the click of a button, and is currently deployed at 2000 client sites.
Alchemex software is integrated into Pastel Partner, Pastel Evolution, Pastel Payroll and Sybiz Vision as the Business Intelligence Centre, and into VIP Payroll as the Business Intelligence Manager. The Alchemex reporting tool also provides automated report templates for Softline Accpac, Sage International and SAP. Alchemex has an established training infrastructure, offering a number of Alchemex and Microsoft Excel training programmes (including the popular and powerful 'Excel on Steroids' workshops) in Gauteng, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Sydney, Australia. Alchemex is a Microsoft Accredited Partner.
Atcor and Alchemex aim to offer Excel for Auditors to their shared target market, being small and medium audit and accounting firms, public sector departments, large professional service firms and the auditor general.
The cost of the classroom-based one-day Excel for Auditors programme is R2 189 for an individual attending our set dates or a cost-effective in-house option is also available, whereby the trainer conducts the workshops at a company's premises to minimise the disruption to the business. This option will cost R15 789 for a maximum of 15 delegates. Discounts are available for multiple bookings.
The Excel for Auditors programme is also offered online - visit www.alchemex.net to find out more.
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