This course is designed specifically for auditors, fraud examiners, compliance professionals, and data reviewers who want to apply Excel in real-world audit and fraud detection work.
In just 3.5 focused hours, you’ll learn how to clean and prepare messy datasets, identify suspicious transactions, reconcile balances, and apply analytical techniques like Benford’s Law—all using the tools available in Microsoft Excel.
Whether you’re new to auditing or looking to sharpen your Excel skills, this course provides practical, step-by-step instruction built around actual audit use cases.
What makes this course different?
Most Excel courses teach generic formulas and functions. This course is different. It’s built from an auditor’s point of view—showing you how to use Excel to detect risk, uncover fraud, and support data-driven decision-making.
You’ll learn what to use, when to use it, and how to interpret what you find.
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:
- Clean and structure raw data with confidence
- Identify anomalies in transaction timing and volume
- Detect red flags through trend analysis, outlier detection, and Benford’s Law
- Use Excel’s built-in tools to plan audits and test controls
- Apply professional formatting and techniques to make your files audit-ready
Whether you’re working in internal audit, public accounting, or fraud investigation, this course will help you get more value out of Excel—and your data.
