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Financial Accounting Practice Sets with Excel

Authors

Nate Stephens, PhD, CPA
Brigham Young University–Hawaii
Nick Ball, PhD
Utah Valley University
Gove Allen, PhD
Brigham Young University
Edition 1
(rev. 27)

The Financial Accounting Practice Sets with Excel course contains several accounting practice sets, encompassing all of the accounting skills covered in introductory financial accounting courses. Each practice set is preceded by instruction covering the Excel skills needed to complete the practice set. Practice sets are graded based on the correctness of the accounting problem as well as the correct use of Excel functions. Excel functions used in this resource include, but are not limited to the following list:

  • VLOOKUP

  • COUNTIF Function

  • Conditional Formatting

  • Cell References

  • Basic Calculations (add, subtract, divide, multiply)

  • IF Statement (including nested IF Statements)

  • PV Function

  • SUMIF Function

  • SUM Function

  • DATEDIF Function

  • Drop-Down Lists

  • Absolute Cell References

  • Cell Formatting

  • Displaying Decimal Places

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