TWO PRACTICAL COURSES TO TRANSFORM BUSINESS REPORTING i³business ANALYTICS AND REPORTING INTELLIGENT EXCEL MODELS VISUAL ANALYTICS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DASHBOARDS WITH EXCEL business with confidence icaew.com/itfac
PRESENTED BY Mr KK Tang is a member of the ICAEW as well as a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS). He served as a Council member of ICPAS from 2002 to 2006. He has also served on the governing body of XBRL International, a consortium to develop and promote the XBRL standard for electronic financial reporting. Mr Tang has three decades experience of business and financial analysis in financial institutions and public listed companies. His desire is to help financial professionals eliminate the manual cut-and-paste exercise that takes too much time, invites errors and slows down month-end analysis and reporting. His humorous, personal and practical style of lecturing has helped many corporations, including Fortune 500 companies, to meet the unrelenting pressure to deliver accurate and timely business information. Ms Elaine Chong is a member of Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS). She holds a Masters of Business Administration and also a Certified Microsoft Office Specialist Expert. Ms Chong has over 15 years experience, with extensive knowledge in the areas of auditing, financial analysis, management reporting and enterprise system implementation. She has held management positions in the financial, commercial and education sectors. While she was a financial controller with a multi-national company, she achieved various global awards in management reporting, in the areas of accuracy, timeliness and useful presentation. Her passion for this topic has inspired many of her students to make dramatic improvements that optimise their performance in the workplace. OBJECTIVES These two courses have helped thousands of accountants worldwide to achieve key transformations in the workplace. l i³bar is a certificated three day course on the concepts and methodology to exploit the power of Excel to build integrated, interactive and intelligent models for business analytics and reporting. It is a hands-on course throughout. l The two day Visual Analytics with BI Dashboard course uses understanding of visual perception and cognition to create effective dashboards that communicate business insights instantly. This course is conducted in workshop style, with a mixture of presentation and small-group discussion on the first day, mainly hands-on on the second day. WHO SHOULD ATTEND These courses are suitable for all accounting and finance professionals including CEOs, CFOs, business owners, entrepreneurs, bankers, brokers and those in practice who advise them. In addition, the Visual Analytics course will be of interest to others in business including sales, marketing, IT and HR who need to understand the fundamentals of good dashboard design and put them into practice. You need to be already an advanced Excel user. We can arrange dedicated in-house delivery of i 3 BAR and Visual Analytics to groups of at least 12. Please contact Dr Paul Booth to discuss the possibilities: T +44 (0)20 7920 8476 E paul.booth@icaew.com
i³bar UNLEASH YOUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT The i³bar course provides the methodology and know-how to enable users to build integrated and interactive Excel models to present concise information to management quickly and with maximum data integrity. KEY FEATURES l Three days intensive hands-on training l Full colour course manual l In-course spreadsheet support for existing workplace reporting needs l Post-course project work and assessment l Certificate of Competency l Continuing technical support after the course SPECIMEN i³bar will enable you to achieve this potential Integrated Best practice of structured spreadsheet design for flexibility, auditability and accuracy. Interactive Get instantaneous answers at a click of a button. Intelligence Right information at the right time. Good decisions for sustainable competitive advantage. If only these methodologies were taught during our original training as accountants, there would have been a lot of wasted time saved. Simon Wheeler ACA, Finance Director, Imbiba Partnership The course tutor was friendly, extremely knowledgeable, understanding of the day-to-day pressures of financial reporting teams and went out of her way to ensure all attendees understood and could apply concepts. Elspeth Holmes ACA, Founder Director, Ottoline Ferdinand Ltd The course exposed me to ideas and techniques which enable powerful and efficient use of Excel to process data which I would never have contemplated on my own. Jill Collyer FCCA, Financial Controller, Spellman High Voltage Electronics Ltd For further details including course dates, prices and recommended pre-requisites for the course, visit icaew.com/bar, where you can book online or download a booking form. COURSE CONTENT 1 Integrate Multiple Data Sources 2 Build and Present Interactive Reports 3 Budget Simulation and Intelligence day 1 Understand the key components of an integrated model - Input, Logic and Presentation blocks - Construct and design a database - Database design rules Understand bad practices that lead to static reports Discover the secrets of interactive reports illustrated in three case studies day 2 Understand the principles of developing interactive charts that change at the click of a button Incorporate interactive commentaries that auto-reflect changes made in data Turn the integrated, interactive model into an easy-to-navigate Board presentation day 3 Common reasons for delay in budget completion Design of input templates incorporating data validation and protection Modelling business processes to develop intelligent budget models for - Profit and Loss, Cash Flow and Balance Sheet - Capital Expenditure Authorisation Model Beyond Budgeting: use model to review business processes and re-engineer balance sheet Develop a what-if simulation model to aid good decision-making
VISUAL ANALYTICS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DASHBOARDS POWERFUL VISUAL IMPACT USING EXCEL This two-day course will provide participants with an understanding of the power of visual perception to design dashboards to communicate your message clearly, effectively and compellingly. You will then develop such dashboards using Excel. Why you should attend The business of information management helping organisations to make sense of their proliferating data is known as Business Intelligence. Central to all BI systems is the ability to create dashboards, displaying all the required information on a single screen: clearly and without distraction, in a manner that can be quickly examined and understood. Clearly presenting everything on a single screen requires a careful design and conscious planning. This course provides participants with a solid understanding of visual perception and human cognition: what works, what doesn t, and why. Next, the course explores various quantitative business analysis techniques used to depict trends, patterns and exceptions. The process of designing a good dashboard includes the ability to model the users decision-making process. On the second day, you will acquire the skills to create the dashboards using Excel, without the cost of expensive enterprise software. This is a powerful course that brings together the theoretical knowledge of dashboards with practical usage. I can apply my skills at work instantly best of all, at no additional IT costs! Business Analyst, Pharmaceutical Company course content Day 1 Goals of data analysis Application of visual perception to information visualisation 13 common mistakes in dashboard design Importance of visual design objectives Design the right graphs and tables for effective communication and insightful analysis Case study: Real-life dashboards to monitor performance and diagnose root cause; to rectify poor performance and perform benchmark analysis Day 2 Dashboard design stages Model decision-maker Design Dashboard template Construct Excel structure for interactive dashboard Build powerful decision-making charts: Bullet charts, Box and Whisker charts, Pareto charts Apply Gestalt principles in dashboard layout For further details including course dates, prices and recommended pre-requisites for the course, visit icaew.com/vsa, where you can book online or download a booking form. The course is conducted in highly participative workshop style, with practical group discussion break-out sessions. The second day will be largely highly hands-on, and participants will need to bring a laptop computer with Excel 2007 or 2010. As a take-away bonus, participants will be provided with a copy of the book Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few.
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