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Excel for Auditors and Fraud Examiners
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(96 ratings)
453 students

Excel for Auditors and Fraud Examiners

Learn the Most Practical Excel Skills every Auditor and Fraud Examiner needs—Clean Data, Spot Anomalies, Detect Fraud
Created byCertified Trainers And Consultants
Last updated 7/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Structure and clean raw audit data using Excel tools like Text to Columns and Flash Fill
  • Reconcile opening and closing balances to detect discrepancies and irregularities
  • Apply Benford’s Law in Excel to identify unusual number patterns and potential fraud
  • Use Excel’s Quick Analysis tool for fast, visual insights during audit planning
  • Detect trends, correlations, and outliers to support risk-based auditing
  • Avoid common Excel mistakes that compromise audit accuracy and reliability
  • Find duplicate records, unusual entries, and one-to-many transactions using audit-specific Excel functions
  • Improve audit efficiency and effectiveness through structured Excel workflows

Course content

6 sections • 27 lectures • 3h 34m total length

  • Introduction to Excel for Auditors (A Must-Watch Session)12:12
  • Boosting Efficiency and Effectiveness in Excel9:47
  • Understanding and Using Wildcards in Excel12:41
  • Do This Instead of Merge Cells in Excel4:57

    Avoid merging cells in Excel; use center across selection to format data, enabling accurate sums and filters, and preserve pivot table functionality.

  • Quickly Removing Blank Rows and Cleaning Data3:08

Requirements

  • Basic familiarity with Microsoft Excel (no advanced skills needed)
  • No prior audit or fraud examination experience required—concepts will be explained clearly

Description

Excel for Auditors and Fraud Examiners – A Complete 3.5-Hour Practical Guide

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.

Who this course is for:

  • Internal auditors, Fraud examiners, and Compliance Professionals looking to enhance their Excel skills
  • Accountants, finance officers, and data reviewers involved in audit support or control testing
  • Professionals preparing for audit fieldwork, fraud analysis, or forensic data reviews
  • Students and entry-level professionals seeking Excel-based techniques for audit and fraud scenarios
  • Anyone responsible for detecting data irregularities, reconciling balances, or evaluating transactional risks using Excel

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