Designed For
- Accounting and financial professionals seeking to improve their knowledge of technology and the return on their investment in technology
Objectives
- Identify essential hardware and software enhancements and updates that are relevant to accountants, including operating systems, desktop productivity suites, accounting software, and document management systems
- Implement critical features in Microsoft Office applications, including accountant-centric features in Excel, Word, and Outlook
- List and apply features found in Adobe Acrobat for working with PDFs, including commenting, reorganizing PDFs, securing PDFs, and creating and working with PDF forms
- Identify security and privacy issues facing accountants, including practical tools and techniques for mitigating risks, such as data encryption, password management, biometrics, and portals
Highlights
- Emerging technologies all business professionals should know
- Considerations associated with upgrading to Windows 11
- Practical options for protecting your data
- New features in commonly-used applications such as Excel and Adobe Acrobat DC
Advanced Prep
- None
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Leaders
Lawrence McClelland
Mac McClelland, an attorney and accounting professional, is an associate of K2 Enterprises of Hammond, Louisiana, and Network Management Group of Hutchinson, Kansas.
Mac was formerly the director of the Centre for Financial Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, where he lived and worked for seven years from 1990 to 1997. He was also a member of the faculty of the Advanced Business Programme, ranked in the top 100 MBA programs in the world by The Economist, specializing in business strategy and strategic management accounting.