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Excel for Auditors : Audit Spreadsheets Using Excel 97 through Excel 2007.
Title:
Excel for Auditors : Audit Spreadsheets Using Excel 97 through Excel 2007.
Author:
Jelen, Bill.
ISBN:
9781932802634
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (226 pages)
Series:
Excel for Professionals series
Contents:
Front Cover -- Table of Contents -- About the Authors -- Bill Jelen -- Dwayne K. Dowell -- Excel Details -- Showing Numbers in Thousands -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Gotcha -- Excel Details -- Quickly Seeing Sum or Average -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Excel Details -- Adding Subtotals -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Excel Details -- Removing Subtotals -- Adding a Second Level of Subtotals -- Quickly Filling a Series -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Using a Fixed Value in Your Formula -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Replacing a Thousand Formulas with One -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Excel Details -- Highlighting Outliers -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Using Conditional Formatting in Excel 2007 -- Finding Transactions from the Last Week -- Using Icon Sets to Mark Values -- Excel Secrets: Applying Icons to Only the Top 10% -- Using Conditional Formatting in Excel 2003 -- Turning Your Data on Its Side with Transpose -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Better in Excel 2007 -- Excel Details -- Joining Text -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Looking up Data -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Copying the VLOOKUP Formula to Get Region and District -- Dealing with #N/A for Missing Values -- When You Know There Is a Match but Excel Cannot Find It -- Retrieving Many Columns from the Lookup Range -- Getting Good Records from Bad Data -- VLOOKUPs Take a Long Time to Calculate -- Sorting Your Data -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Sorting Data with One Click -- Gotcha -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Sorting in a Custom Sequence -- Additional Details -- Gotcha -- Excel Details -- Better in Excel 2007 - Sorting by Color -- Dealing with Dates -- Here's the Situation.

Here's What to Do -- Calculating with Dates -- Analyzing Data with Pivot Tables -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Preparing Your Data -- Creating a Summary with a Pivot Table -- Creating Your First Pivot Table in Excel 97-2003 -- Creating Your First PivotTable in Excel 2007 -- Changing the Pivot Table Using the "Add To" Button in Excel 97-2003 -- Changing the Pivot Table in Excel 2007 -- Eliminating Blank Cells from the Data Section -- Changing a Pivot Table by Dragging Fields -- Showing Two or More Fields in the Data Area -- Grouping Date Fields by Year -- Grouping Date Fields by Month -- Removing One of Many Data Items -- Building an Ad-Hoc Report Using Page Fields or Report Filter -- Showing Top 10 Customers -- Drilling Down To See Detail -- Pivot Tables and Recalculation -- Limitations on Using Pivot Tables -- Reporting Percentage of Row -- Analyzing Results by Date -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Filling in Weekdays -- Filling in Conditional Counts -- Further Analysis - Sorting -- Further Analysis - Charting -- Further Analysis - Stratification by Weekday -- Creating a Random Sample from a Dataset -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Gotcha -- Finding and Analyzing Records Using AutoFilter -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Excel Details -- Copying Only Filtered Records -- Still More AutoFilter Options -- Formula Auditing -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Locating All Formulas with Show Formulas Mode -- Highlighting All Formulas with Go To Special -- Evaluating a Formula with the F9 Key -- Evaluating a Formula in Slow Motion -- Tracing Precedents or Dependents -- Finding Dependents Using Formula Auditing Arrows -- Finding Precedents Using Formula Auditing Arrows -- Formula Auditing Tips -- Numeric Headings Included in AutoSum Totals -- Ignoring Order of Operations.

Beware of Reset Error Indicators -- Matching Two Lists -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Viewing Two Files Side-by-Side -- Building a Match Function -- Allowing for More Names to Be Added -- Preventing #N/A Errors -- Retrieving the Date Returned Using VLOOKUP -- Better in Excel 2007 - Replacing #N/A -- Finding Duplicates or Unique Values -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Finding Duplicates -- Finding Duplicates in Excel 2007 -- Finding Unique Values -- Using a Formula to Isolate Unique Values -- Using Advanced Filter to Find Unique Records -- Using a Pivot Table to Find Unique Records -- Using Remove Duplicates in Excel 2007 to Find Unique Records -- Finding the Gaps -- Using AutoFilter in Excel 97-2003 -- Better in Excel 2007 - Using AutoFilter -- Next Steps -- Automating Excel with VBA -- Here's the Situation -- Here's What to Do -- Allowing VBA to Run On Your Computer -- Inserting a VBA Module in Your Workbook -- Writing and Running a Macro -- Creating a Macro to Loop Through All Records -- Referring to Cells in the Loop -- Referring to an Entire Row Using CELLS -- Referring to a Rectangular Range Using CELLS -- Macro to Color Every Third Row Red -- Making Decisions Based on Values in the Row -- Special Handling When Deleting Rows -- Handling an Unknown Number of Rows -- Working with Other Worksheets -- Looping through all Worksheets -- Using the Macro Recorder to Learn Other Code -- A Final Note About Recording Macros -- Conclusion -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
Providing the tools and techniques necessary for finding errors and fraud in audits, this guide for auditors looking to better validate their Microsoft Excel spreadsheets provides techniques for performing a risk assessment and gathering spreadsheet and other data from company systems. Performing audit data analysis using data and analytical management functions and pinpointing the common errors in spreadsheets with focused Excel tests is discussed, as are the best practices for error and fraud prevention when developing spreadsheets. This reference is fully updated to reflect Excel 12.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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