Excel tips: working hard or hardly working?
This month, Simon Hurst explores ways of increasing your productivity in Microsoft Excel.
Office software
Resources to help you make the most out of Office software.
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Data analytics software for business
The recent pace of technological changes and increasing volumes of data being dealt with, has created a need for finance professionals to be able to manipulate and analyse data to aid in-depth insights, improve financial reporting and ultimately facilitate better business decision making.
Cashflow modelling: good spreadsheet practice
14 April 2020: Cash flow forecasts are often prepared in Excel – but spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone. The ICAEW Tech Faculty shares insight on how to reduce errors in spreadsheets.
Microsoft Outlook and email
Using Outlook effectively: 3 – emails
Outlook isn’t just an email engine. It includes tools that help you organise, prioritise and delegate work.
Using Outlook effectively: 2 – tasks
Most accountants use Outlook for emails but often overlook the tasks feature. Making the most of tasks saves time, repetition and the fear of forgetting something.
Using Outlook: 1 – the calendar
Most accountants use Outlook for most of their appointments but few know how powerful the calendar function really is. This first in a series of three articles on using Outlook (2007) effectively focuses on how to make use of this function.