Episodes
2024
How to master using different Excel techniques together
Boost your Excel skills by learning how to build custom lists and use range names
- Personal and career development
17 min listening timePublished onMaster the latest Excel changes: your ultimate guide
Learn about three new Excel functions and the changes to working with CSV files
- Personal and career development
16 min listening timePublished onHow to automate report building in Excel (part 2)
How to automate your reports in Excel using dynamic arrays
- Career skills
12 min listening timePublished onHow to automate report building in Excel
How to automate your reports in Excel using dynamic arrays
- Career skills
12 min listening timePublished onHow to lift workplace communication skills with humour
Meet accountant-turned-comedian Alan Cameron-Sweeney, who demonstrates the power of humour
- Personal and career development
27 min listening timePublished onCan neurodiverse talent boost your workplace?
See how one social enterprise helps match neurodiverse talent with business
- Career skills
26 min listening timePublished onHow to network your way to a dream job
Practical steps to get you to your ultimate role
- Personal and career development
19 min listening timePublished onDiscover the power of career coaching
Learn why career coaching is an increasingly valuable tool to help build your work success
- Personal and career development
18 min listening timePublished on
2023
Top Excel tips for your first 100 days in a new job
Essential tips to give you an edge when starting a new role in accounting and finance
- Personal and career development
15 min listening timePublished onMaster 10 new and revamped Excel features
Improve your efficiency and boost your workflow by learning these 10 smart Excel features
- Career skills
15 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: how to improve your formatting
Make your files easier to read, understand and use
- Personal and career development
9 min listening timePublished onUnlock 14 expert tips for Excel formulas
Boost your Excel skills with these practical shortcuts and techniques for formulas
- Personal and career development
- Career skills
24 min listening timePublished onHow to create improved data visualisations in Excel
A guide to Excel’s charts and visualisation tools to enhance your data when displayed
- Career skills
15 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: how to work with dates and days
Addition and subtraction calculations for dates and days explained
- Personal and career development
15 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: how to use custom functions without macros
Learn how new functions expand the power and versatility of formula capability
- Personal and career development
12 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: how to use the new data types feature
Learn about the four data types you can now import via the data ribbon in Excel
- Personal and career development
- Career skills
16 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: how to create vertical lines in line charts
If you want to mark something on a line chart, here’s how
- Personal and career development
11 min listening timePublished on22 Excel shortcuts to supercharge your efficiency
Boost your productivity with these time-saving tips for everyday Excel tasks
- Technology
- Career skills
32 min listening timePublished onWhy Excel can be a university student’s secret weapon
Excel can help students hit the ground running when starting off in accounting or finance
- Personal and career development
26 min listening timePublished onExcel and ChatGPT
5 May 2023 | We evaluate ChatGPT to see if this AI tool accurately answers Excel questions
- Technology
14 min listening timePublished onBoost your skills with tips for Excel function updates
Stay on top of Excel function updates with these tips for dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP and more
- Personal and career development
13 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: how to do dynamic arrays (subscription version)
An update addresses a key challenge when using dynamic arrays
- Personal and career development
10 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: how to use Goal Seek
Use this tool to help create a loan schedule with an interest-free period using formulas
- Personal and career development
11 min listening timePublished onHow accountants can be future-ready today
Expert career advice for accountants and finance professionals to stay ahead of the curve
- Personal and career development
26 min listening timePublished onWill you get a pay rise in 2023?
Explore this year’s jobs and salary trends for accounting and finance
- Personal and career development
- Career skills
29 min listening timePublished onExplore Excel’s remarkable rise
The story of its Mac origins to today’s cloud version and must-have business tool
- Technology
28 min listening timePublished onHow to give your career a boost
Expert strategies for rebooting and refreshing your accounting and finance career
- Personal and career development
29 min listening timePublished onHow to never stop learning
Expert tips on learning and upskilling to future-proof your accounting and finance career
- Personal and career development
- Education
30 min listening timePublished onHow you can harness smarter workplace behaviours
New and innovative perspectives from best-selling author Daniel Pink
- Personal and career development
31 min listening timePublished onThe crucial skill that will boost your accountancy career
Soft skills are now crucial in accounting and finance. Here’s why.
- Career skills
- Personal and career development
28 min listening timePublished onUnlock the secrets to high-level decision-making
How The Decision Doctor® can help guide your next big leadership or career decision
- Personal and career development
34 min listening timePublished onHow to chart a successful career path
Career experts’ advice for accounting and finance professionals
- Careers
- Personal and career development
33 min listening timePublished onDaragh O Brien on bad data, big data and the future of data
Demystifying and dissecting the new data frontier for business
- Data management
- Technology
- Business strategy
35 min listening timePublished onHow to read digital body language in the workplace
Decode the new digital body language signals and cues with expert insights
- Personal and career development
26 min listening timePublished onUpskill now: short course or longer program?
Continuing professional development enhances career progress – and finding the right course is key
- Personal and career development
6 min listening timePublished onWhy your transferrable skills are in demand
As organisations vie for talent, identifying and building on transferable skills will be key
- Personal and career development
5 min listening timePublished onHow to seek honest feedback from your employees
A safe space for employees to talk openly without repercussions can unlock more honest feedback
- Personal and career development
6 min listening timePublished onCan socialising really be your career secret weapon?
Learn how stronger social connections could boost your career prospects
- Personal and career development
5 min listening timePublished onEffective writing tips for accountants
Learn how to engage your audience with data and information visualisation and these writing tips
- Personal and career development
6 min listening timePublished onWorkplace tips: delivering bad news
Discover how to professionally and clearly deliver bad news in your work setting
- Personal and career development
8 min listening timePublished onWhat you need to know about references when hiring
Practical work reference examples to help you clarify whether candidates are the right fit
- Career skills
5 min listening timePublished onTop CFO skills for 2024
Strategic finance, employee engagement and technology are high on the agenda for CFOs
- Personal and career development
8 min listening timePublished on3 skills accountants need in a ‘post-truth’ era
Here are three key skills that accountants need now more than ever
- Personal and career development
5 min listening timePublished onMaking the most of mid-career upskilling
Mid-career upskilling is priority. Learn how you can also juggle competing demands.
- Personal and career development
6 min listening timePublished onHow to come back from career failure
Career failure may have a silver lining – the opportunity to reinvent yourself or start a new career
- Personal and career development
7 min listening timePublished onLearned helplessness at work: what it is and how to beat it
How to overcome learned helplessness
- Personal and career development
4 min listening timePublished onWhy boredom "can be beautiful": research expert explains
How boredom at work can be your creative secret weapon
- Career skills
7 min listening timePublished onWhy face-to-face meetings are still key in 2023
Meeting fatigue is understandable, but learn why face-to-face still has value
- Personal and career development
4 min listening timePublished onWhy accountants should learn Python
Python can help you extract new insights from data, and it belongs in every accountant’s skill set
- Personal and career development
7 min listening timePublished onLearn Excel’s built-in artificial intelligence feature
The AI function can help with data analysis and audit work. Here’s how.
- Personal and career development
- Career skills
11 min listening timePublished onWere The Jetsons right about the future of work?
Has The Jetsons' promise of fewer work hours taken flight?
- Career skills
27 min listening timePublished on
2022
Introducing the Excel Data Model
Learn some of the basic features, which are extremely powerful and flexible
- Personal and career development
16 min listening timePublished onExcel skills for current and future accountants
Tips you need to know, today and in the future
- Personal and career development
22 min listening timePublished onHow to solve the printing challenge in Excel
Learn how to use the icons in the workbook views section
- Personal and career development
15 min listening timePublished onHow to unleash the power of PivotTables
Learn how to create reports without using a single formula
- Personal and career development
15 min listening timePublished onWellbeing at work: Why financial health is only one success factor
Discover how small changes can have big impacts
- Mental health
- Business management
37 min listening timePublished onFinancial data simplified
Data triangulation, governance and sovereignty explained
- Personal and career development
- Data management
26 min listening timePublished onJobs and Skills Summit Accounting outcomes
Part 2: The summit was held against a backdrop of the lowest unemployment rate in Australia in 48 years
- Economy
- Accounting updates
- Career skills
20 min listening timePublished onUnlock summer job market tips and trends
The latest insights on summer’s employment market
- Career skills
21 min listening timePublished onUnpacking the Jobs and Skills Summit: Business outcomes
Part 1: The summit was held against a backdrop of the lowest unemployment rate in Australia in 48 years
- Economy
- Career skills
25 min listening timePublished on
2021
Dynamic charts in Microsoft Excel
Learn how to use range names to convert a static chart in a dynamic one
- Personal and career development
13 min listening timePublished onUnderstanding the LET function
Use this Excel function to solve real-world problems
- Personal and career development
9 min listening timePublished onHow to import Excel files using Power Query
Power up your data transformation and preparation in Microsoft Excel
- Personal and career development
14 min listening timePublished onAll about the XLOOKUP Function
How to look up code in a table and return entries on the same row
- Personal and career development
19 min listening timePublished onHow to use an IS function in Excel
Knowing what a cell contains can be useful when developing your formulas
- Personal and career development
10 min listening timePublished onHow to handle formula errors in Excel using IFERROR
What to do if you create a formula and then realise it needs to handle errors
- Personal and career development
13 min listening timePublished onUsing flexible conditional formats in Excel
Make conditional formats work for you in dashboards and reporting
- Personal and career development
11 min listening timePublished onWorking with small data sets
Convert a data entry layout into one that works with PivotTables and other reports
- Personal and career development
8 min listening timePublished onSlicers in Microsoft Excel
Learn how to use slicers on formatted tables
- Personal and career development
8 min listening timePublished onGet proficient with function macros
Learn how to create your own function in Excel
- Personal and career development
11 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: How to use Text Boxes
Discover how to use text boxes and why they'll help in your day-to-day work
- Personal and career development
10 min listening timePublished onUse LET function to solve tricky Excel challenges
Stumped by an Excel problem? Check out the LET function.
- Personal and career development
9 min listening timePublished onCreating hyperlinked index sheets
Useful tools to speed up and simplify navigation around large Excel files
- Personal and career development
13 min listening timePublished onTop tips from experts on how to get a board role
Advice on taking your career to the next step
- Careers
22 min listening timePublished onUnderstanding your digital body language at work
Demystifying the new cues and signals
- Personal and career development
27 min listening timePublished onWhy you’re never too young to plan your career
Planning your career begins now
- Personal and career development
43 min listening timePublished onWhy accounting skills make you a better leader
How to succeed in a variety of roles
- Personal and career development
42 min listening timePublished on
2020
How to build your skills to get noticed and promoted
Our career experts help you get ready for promotion opportunities
- Careers
- Personal and career development
27 min listening timePublished onHow to thrive during uncertainty
Practical tips for navigating trying times
- Personal and career development
40 min listening timePublished onApproaching problems as new opportunities
Think differently to drive innovation
- Personal and career development
49 min listening timePublished onTeam building and coaching in the workplace
Career tips you can put into practice
- Personal and career development
35 min listening timePublished onWhy employers want to see micro-credentials on your resume
Learn how these short courses can help you fill a skills gap
- Education
- Personal and career development
42 min listening timePublished onCareer skills revisited: Board success with Claire Braund
How to take that next step in your career to secure a board position
- Personal and career development
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