Module 4 ECDL/ICDL Syllabus 4.0. This manual helps you learn how to design spreadsheets, how to use basic functions to perform calculations within your spreadsheet and how to create and format charts. The manual comes with its own data files which you use for practising the relevant exercises. Approved by the ECDL Foundation.
Revised for the new specification, this textbook covers all the modules of this qualification. Skills practice helps consolidate learning. Practice material at the end of each module helps prepare students for assessment. A CD-ROM contains answers and recalled text to save time and effort.
Module 2 ECDL/ICDL Syllabus 4.0. You will learn about the main operating features of Windows, the desktop and display settings on your computer. You will also learn how to organise and manage files and folders using the supplied data files. Approved by the ECDL Foundation
As well as comprehensively covering the ECDL/ICDL Advanced AM4 syllabus, this manual is useful for those wishing to increase their spreadsheet knowledge. Designed to gradually build up your knowledge the syllabus includes advanced Functions, Scenarios and Pivot Tables. Data files are supplied on CD which allow you to practise the different features.Approved by the ECDL Foundation.
'ECDL/ICDL Syllabus 4' contains a collection of exercises that provides you with support and assistance so you can assess and improve your knowledge of Microsoft Windows and Office. They are designed to reinforce the understanding of the skills and techniques necessary before taking the ECDL tests.
Covers all modules of the ECDL qualification and all of the underpinning knowledge your students need to complete their assessment. Screenshots and illustrations using Office 2003 bring the theory to life, making learning easy. Skills practice throughout helps students consolidate what they have learnt. Practice material at the end of each module prepares students for the ECDL assessment. A CD-ROM with the book contains recalled text to save keying-in time, and answers to the exercises in the books.
Learn the basic operations associated with searching and navigating web sites to access information, how to create and send e-mail messages and how to manage personal distribution lists and message folders. The manual comes with its own data files which you can use for practising the relevant exercises. Approved by the ECDL Foundation.
What other reviewers say about ?Spreadsheet Check and Control??It is excellent. I am embarrassed when I think of the shortcuts I generally take with spreadsheets and I have often paid the price. I think it will become, and it should be, required reading for all young trainee accountants.? Ciaran Walsh, senior finance specialist, Irish Management Institute.?It's super. I kept saying to myself, ?Wow, I didn't know you could do that.? A great job.? Ray Panko, the most cited authority on spreadsheet error, University of Hawai?I.?Spreadsheet Check and Control does what no other book before has attempted to do; provide standards for designing spreadsheets that lend themselves to a logical review by management and internal auditors. Following this author?s guide and insight can help your organization minimize spreadsheet errors and facilitate audit review to prevent and detect those errors.? Jim Kaplan, AuditNet.org.?I thought I knew a lot about Excel, but in the course of teaching me to be Excel-careful, O'Beirne taught me some new tricks and methods that both helped me build better financial models and track down errors.? Simon Benninga, author of Financial Modeling, MIT Press 2000 and Principles of Finance with Excel, Oxford University Press, 2005.'Save red faces all round by buying, absorbing and passing-on this book, especially if you personally develop spreadsheets or if your organization is subject to Sarbanes Oxley and related regulations. Avoiding even a trivial spreadsheet mistake may well pay for the book. Avoiding a large one may save your career.' Dr. Gary Hinson, independent consultant in information security and computer auditing, editor of security awareness website NoticeBored.com.'Probably one of the most important spreadsheet books ever written. Your customers and boss will be delighted with the increased usability, accuracy and reliability his techniques encourage. Be aware that the pages are packed with useful and usable advice, so the 200 pages is probably equivalent to 500 pages in many other books.' Simon Murphy, Codematic.net, author of XLAnalyst.'An essential guide for serious spreadsheet users. This book goes a long way to help spreadsheet users adopt methods that will reduce errors and thereby improve the quality of the information vital to the success of all organisations.' P M Cleary, University of Wales Institute Cardiff, Wales'This is an excellent, easy to follow book containing the key practices that will arm the novice and self taught spreadsheet user so they can create well designed, reliable and error free spreadsheets.' CPA Ireland magazine review'Minimizing or eliminating spreadsheet errors is Patrick O'Beirne's focus in this visual 200-page book, which is geared toward software testers, business managers, or auditors sleuthing for fraud'. CA Magazine (Canada) review Summary of contents
This comprehensive manual covers all aspects required by Module 1 ECDL/ICDL Syllabus 4.0. Designed to gradually build up your knowledge taking a step by step, exercise based approach. The ideal training solution, whether you are a beginner, or if you just need to fill gaps in your existing knowledge. Module 1 gives an insight into hardware and software as well as giving examples of how computers are used every day.Approved by the ECDL Foundation.
This manual helps you learn how to design spreadsheets, how to use basic functions to perform calculations within your spreadsheet and how to create and format charts. The manual comes with its own data files which you use for practicing the relevant exercises. It is approved by the ECDL Foundation.
