Excel for Accounting Professionals Session 5: Error Trapping and Improving Lookups

Practical hands-on Excel learning exercises taught by a highly engaging expert in the field

You’ll develop your expertise with real-world Excel workbooks. Despite the popularity of VLOOKUP, it has its drawbacks. This session will address these drawbacks while offering alternatives.

You’ll walk through the VLOOKUP and IFERROR functions, and explore the following topics:

- Improving the use of VLOOKUP with VALUE/TEXT

- Improving the use of VLOOKUP with MATCH.

- Moving beyond VLOOKUP with INDEX

- Trapping errors with IFERROR

Moving beyond basic Excel functions

Grasping the limitations and possible enhancements for the VLOOKUP feature, along with methods to handle errors can elevate your proficiency in Excel.

You’ll also partake in hands-on Excel activities that showcase the integration of functions and their use in crafting spreadsheets, encompassing:

- Combining functions to enhance flexibility

- Utilizing functions for atypical data categories

- Perfecting sophisticated lookup functions

*Session 5 is one of eight sessions that is available as an individual session. Each session builds on the prior sessions, so you'll want to consider watching [Session 6: List Comparisons and Indenting] (https://www.aicpa-cima.com/cpe-learning/webcast/excel-for-accounting-professionals-session-6--list-comparisons-and-indenting) to further prepare to tackle real-world issues and build powerful workbooks.*

Learning Objectives:

- apply the use of VLOOKUP with MATCH to search Information effectively in Excel.

- apply the use of VLOOKUP with value/TEXT to increase VLOOKUP functionality.

- Determine When to move beyond VLOOKUP with the INDEX function.

- Identify ways to trap errors with IFERROR.

- use the if function.

Who will benefit:

Accounting and finance professionals who'd like to improve their mastery of Microsoft Excel

This is an AICPA hosted webcast. You will launch the course from your OSCPA learning center portal. AICPA will issue and maintain your credits. Please make sure to download your CPE certificate from AICPA webcast portal at the conclusion of the webcast.