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This webinar will demonstrate how Excel's text functions can be used to quickly clean, standardise, split, combine, and transform exported data into accurate, report-ready information.

Participants will learn practical techniques that can save hours of manual work, reduce errors, improve data quality, and make reporting more efficient.

Whether you're preparing management accounts, analysing transactions, working with client data, or building reports, these skills will help you spend less time fixing data and more time delivering valuable insights to your business and clients.

Eithne Dolan will cover the following topics during this webinar:

• Cleaning Imported Data
• Extracting Information from Text Strings
• Modern Excel Text Functions for Splitting Data
• Combining & Standardising Data
• Preparing Data for Analysis & Reporting

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Clean messy exported data in seconds
• Extract key information from text strings
• Split and combine data efficiently
• Standardise information for reporting
• Prepare data for Pivot Tables, Dashboards and Power Query analysis

This webinar will be of particular interest to Accountants in Practice, Auditors, Financial Controllers, Finance Managers, Management Accountants, Bookkeepers and Business Owners who regularly use Excel to prepare reports, analyse financial data and work with exported information from accounting and ERP systems.

Course Level: Intermediate

While the individual Excel functions are not highly technical, the webinar focuses on applying them to real-world accounting, finance, and reporting challenges.

Participants will learn how to clean, transform, standardise, and prepare exported data from accounting systems, ERP systems and other business applications.

The session assumes a basic working knowledge of Excel and will demonstrate practical techniques that improve data quality,

reporting accuracy and productivity. It goes beyond introductory Excel skills but does not require advanced Excel expertise.