Learn the Most Practical Excel Skills every Auditor and Fraud Examiner needs—Clean Data, Spot Anomalies, Detect Fraud
Excel for Auditors and Fraud Examiners – A Complete 3.5-Hour Practical Guide
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
- Mastering Essential Excel Skills for Audit and Fraud Examination –> 5 lectures • 43min.
- Extracting, Cleaning, and Structuring Audit Data –> 12 lectures • 1hr 8min.
- Detecting Anomalies, Risky Transactions, and Irregularities –> 4 lectures • 36min.
- Data Analysis Techniques for Auditors & Fraud Examiners –> 2 lectures • 18min.
- Fraud Detection Using Benford’s Law –> 2 lectures • 23min.
- Special Tools and Techniques for Auditors & Fraud Examiners –> 2 lectures • 27min.
Requirements
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.