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Certificates: Certificate "Excel Specialist"
Certified Business Administrator" certificate -
Additional Certificates: Microsoft Excel" certificate
Certificate "Microsoft Excel for advanced users" -
Examination: Praxisbezogene Projektarbeiten mit Abschlusspräsentationen
Modulprüfung Microsoft Excel
Certified Business Administrator -
Teaching Times: Full-timeMonday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m.)
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Language of Instruction: German
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Duration: 8 Weeks
Spreadsheet calculation with Microsoft Excel
Spreadsheet calculation with Excel (full-time 10 days/part-time 20 days)
Basics of table editing
Working with formulas and functions
Formatting cells, editing and printing tables
Filling, moving and copying (auto-fill, flash preview)
Sorting and filtering data
Calculating with date and time
Creating and editing charts
Chart templates and chart layouts
Manage workbooks (sheet protection, workbook protection)
Use individual print settings
Using Excel templates
Formula help and troubleshooting with AI
Microsoft Excel for advanced users
Spreadsheet calculation with Excel (approx. 8 days)
Using Excel as a database: Selecting (auto and special filters), sorting, evaluating lists (tables)
Using functions, performing calculations with functions, getting to know references
Matrix functions: SREFERENCE, WREFERENCE, XREFERENCE
Working with names or named ranges
Creating, editing and evaluating pivot tables
Special functionalities such as conditional formats, validity rules, user-defined formats
Calculations with cell ranges (matrices)
Creating different chart types
Macro recording
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Project work (approx. 2 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Fundamentals of business administration and accounting
Business management basics and company processes (approx. 3 days)
Business management in companies
Corporate goals and conflicting objectives
Structure, functions and operational processes
Basic business functions: Procurement, service provision, sales, financing, personnel and administration
Business model, value creation and the relationship between turnover, costs, profit and liquidity
AI-supported research, structuring and preparation of business information
Business law and legal basics (approx. 2 days)
Legal forms of companies
Rights and obligations in sales contracts
Basics of liability
Cooperations and company mergers
Insolvency law and signs of crisis
Tax fundamentals in the corporate context (approx. 1 day)
Classification of business tax types
Basics of corporate taxation
The basic principle of value added tax
Importance of taxes for pricing, earnings and liquidity
Fundamentals of external accounting: bookkeeping, balance sheet and income statement (approx. 6 days)
Tasks and objectives of external accounting
Inventory and stocktaking
Layout and structure of a balance sheet, assets/liabilities
Profit and loss account (P&L) and profit calculation
Receivables/payables
Provisions and reserves in basic terms
Depreciation and its effects on the annual financial statements
Relationship between current business transactions and annual financial statements
P&L statement in graduated form
Introduction to analyzing the balance sheet and income statement
AI support in accounting-related processes, e.g. for audit notes, plausibility checks
Corporate goals, key figures and business management (approx. 1 day)
Profitability, productivity
Liquidity and profitability
Return on equity and other business ratios
Assessment of the economic situation of a company
Cost and activity accounting in small and medium-sized companies (approx. 3 days)
Tasks and importance of cost and activity accounting
Terms used in cost accounting
Cost type, cost center and cost unit accounting
Price calculation
Basic principles of contribution margin and profitability analysis
Cost accounting for operational control
Project work, certification preparation and certification examination (approx. 4 days)
Changes are possible, the course content is updated regularly.
Once you have completed the course, you will understand the concept of spreadsheets and be able to use Excel quickly and confidently. You will also be able to work confidently with formulas and functions and create, edit and evaluate large tables. You will also be able to use pivot tables and make good use of references.
You will also have a basic understanding of business contexts and commercial thinking. You will be familiar with the central areas of accounting, be able to classify operational key figures and understand and process simple business management issues in everyday working life. You will also learn about the sensible and responsible use of artificial intelligence in commercial and administrative work processes.
The course is aimed at people who want to acquire basic business management knowledge or refresh and expand their existing knowledge in the commercial field.
Sound basic commercial and business management knowledge is indispensable in today's working world and makes it easier for you to understand business practice.
With in-depth knowledge of Microsoft Excel, you will also expand your professional expertise, which will further increase your chances on the job market.
Didactic concept
Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).
You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.
Virtual classroom alfaview®
Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face lessons via video technology.
The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).