Accounting lecturers have told us that many students graduate without the Excel skills required to enter the workforce. We want to help.
Join Jacqueline Birt and Neale Blackwood for our live webinar, The Accounting Skills Gap: Teaching Students Excel, on June 2 at 12pm (AEST), where they:
- Speak to the student benefits of incorporating Excel activities in your course,
- Show you the core Excel functions and formulas students should know, and
- Demystify Excel with a Q&A session.
About the speakers:
Professor Jac Birt is a passionate educator with over 34 years accounting education experience. Her current role is Professor of Accounting and Head of Accounting and Finance at the UWA Business School. Jac is very interested in accounting education research including learning styles, active learning, threshold concepts, assurance of learning, professional scepticism and teamwork.
She is the immediate Australian Past-President of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) and the current chair of the Chairs in Accounting and Finance Forum. Jac is a member of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) Education Board and a board member at Tranby College and also a member of their finance and audit committee.
About the speakers:
Neale Blackwood is a Microsoft Excel expert with over 30 years’ experience as an Accountant and consultant and over 25 years’ experience using and writing about Excel. Neale has been a regular contributor to INTHEBLACK since May 2002. He has written over 200 Excel articles for the magazine. He answers Excel questions from CPAs from around the world.
Neale has written and presented numerous Excel sessions at CPA events around Australia over the past 10 years. He has recorded over 30 Excel podcasts for the CPA Australia podcast series. His first book, Advanced Excel Reporting for Management Accountants, was published in 2014 by Wiley. He has presented over 350 live webinars on Excel since 2012 and written over 500 Excel blog posts.
