This course is designed to provide participants with the Excel knowledge and skills necessary to prepare budgets and forecasts more efficiently and with greater accuracy. It provides real-world examples developed by accountants for accountants in the following six major topic areas: collaboration and workbook security, integrating and manipulating data from external sources, consolidating budgetary data, summarizing and analyzing data with PivotTables, forecasting revenues and expenses using linear regression and other techniques, and understanding and applying capital budgeting principles.