Power Excel Tips & Tricks and Excel for Auditors Seminars in Milwaukee, WI on November 8, 2007

Location: Best Western Midway Hotel
                1005 S. Moorland Road
                Brookfield, WI 53005
                262.786.9540 (P)
                262.786.4561 (F)

Registration: Please visit the IIA website

Morning Session: 8:30 - 12:00 pm "Power Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Excel" with Bill Jelen.

Course Description: You use Excel 40 hours a week, but do you really know how to unleash the power of Excel? Learn cool secrets and tricks lurking on the Data menu. Learn the ins and outs of Pivot Tables (from the guy who wrote the book on pivot tables!). Create slick charts in a single button click. Add thousands of subtotals in seconds. Don’t be tortured by bad data any longer. Learn some of the changes made in Excel 2007. Participants in the session will receive a copy of Jelen’s book, Learn Excel from MrExcel which is comprised of 277 questions and solutions posed to him during his seminars. Jelen loves new questions and will incorporate them in the seminar. Send your Excel questions in advance via e-mail or bring them to the seminar. Jelen promises, “If you use Excel 40 hours per week, you will save 100 hours each year by attending this seminar!”

Participants of the afternoon session will receive a copy of Bill Jelen's book Learn Excel from MrExcel - 277 Excel Mysteries Solved.

Lunch: 12:00 - 1:00

Afternoon Session: 1:00 - 4:00 "Excel for Auditors" with Bill Jelen.

Course Description: Learn more tricks for Excel useful in performing audits. Learn several ways to find duplicates or a unique list of values. Create stratifications, look for outliers, and pull random samples. Create charts that don’t look like they are native to Excel. You will walk through more detailed case studies where you will need to combine several Excel techniques in order to create a solution. Bring a laptop to follow along. Excel for Auditors is a 207 page book that covers both Excel 2003 and Excel 2007.

Participants of the afternoon session will receive a copy of Bill Jelen's book Excel for Auditors.

Cost:
IIA Members   - $75 per session; $110 for full day seminar
Non-members - $90 per session; $125 for full day seminar

Last Day to Register: October 31
Last Day to Cancel:   November 5

Seating Limit: 150

Registration Note: Due to having books shipped to Madison, Wisconsin, please register by October 30, 2007 to receive your copy of Learn Excel from MrExcel at the seminar. If you register after that date, your book may not be available at the seminar, but will be shipped to you after the seminar.

Continuing Professional Education: Sessions are tailored to meet the CPE guidelines of certification and/or licensing agencies as nearly as possible. CPE attendance forms will be available at the conference. Authority for granting CPE credits is reserved, however, solely to these licensing agencies.

Speaker Bio: Bill Jelen is the host of MrExcel.com and the author of fifteen books on Microsoft Excel including Special Edition Using Excel 2007, Pivot Table Data Crunching, VBA & Macros for Microsoft Excel, Excel for Marketing Managers and Guerilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel. He has made over 60 guest appearances on TV’s Call for Help with Leo Laporte and was voted guest of the year on the Computer America radio show. His daily video podcast Learn Excel from MrExcel is a top 50 tech video podcast on iTunes. Bill will entertain you while showing you the powerful tricks in Excel. Before founding MrExcel.com in 1998, Jelen spent twelve years “in the trenches”, as a financial analyst for the accounting, finance, marketing, and operations departments of a publicly held company. Since then, his company automates Excel reports for hundreds of clients around the world. The website answers over 30,000 questions a year – for free – for readers all over the world. Jelen joins us from Akron, Ohio.

For further information, please contact Bethann Ambrose at 414-343-7590.

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