Data Analysis for Accountants: Statistics

by Paula Guilfoyle

This course explores the various ways you can use statistics and probability to enhance your role as an accounting and finance professional. Gain an understanding of basic probability functions and testing your hypotheses using Excel.

price £75+vat
cpd hours 4 CPD hours
access 120 days' access

This course will enable you to

  • Understand the basics of probability functions in Excel
  • Use statistics to summarise and describe data you’re working with
  • Learn how to use pivot tables, COUNTIF and HYPGEOM.DIST to count probability
  • Categorise random variables and use binomial distributions and Poisson variables
  • Use Excel tools to select samples, calculate confidence and estimate a population size
  • Test explanations or hypotheses you come up with using Excel

About the course

As accountants, we are all familiar with Excel. However, in a dynamic and ever-changing world, we need to be smarter about how we use the tools we have at our disposal. Using statistics and probability in Excel can help you to enhance your role as an accounting and finance professional. The techniques covered in this course can help you to understand how to use statistics to summarise and properly describe the data with which you're working.

You will cover the basics of probability, so that you can understand how to predict more accurately the likelihood of certain business outcomes. You'll also touch on the various issues you might discover related to sample size and then how to test explanations or hypotheses that you come up with.

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Contents

  • Descriptive statistics
    • Descriptive statistics in Excel
    • Histograms
    • Box plots
    • Categorical and numerical data
    • Summarising categorical data with PivotTables
    • Categorical data and PivotTables
    • Formulas for descriptive statistics
    • RANK, LARGE and SMALL
    • Geometric mean
  • Basic probability
    • COUNTIF
    • The law of complements
    • Independent and mutually exclusive events
    • Conditional probability
    • HYPGEOM.DIST
    • Joint probability PivotTable
  • Random variables
    • What are random variables?
    • Binomial distribution
    • Poisson variables
    • Normal distribution
  • Basics of sampling
    • Populations and samples
    • CONFIDENCE.NORM and CONFIDENCE.T
    • Population size
  • Hypothesis testing
    • Z-tests
    • What is a t-test?
    • Correlation
    • Two sample Z-test

How it works

Author

Paula Guilfoyle

Paula practiced in Industry for over 15 years, working with both small and large private companies, before moving on to teach Excel and Power BI to accountants and professionals.

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Access to this course
Total CPD unitshourshours4 unitshourshours
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Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
Account manager on hand to support your team's needs
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Keep your whole team up to date.

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Total CPD unitshourshours800+ unitshourshours
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Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
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