do accountants really know excel?...marketing hr manufacturing financial services science & tech...
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‘An accountant earns £40k per year and is charged out at 2.5x that, i.e. £100k. He spends 2.5 hours out of an 8-hour working day using Excel and scores 32.5% right on our Filter questions (i.e. that’s his baseline level of expertise). With relevant training and dedication he raises his level to 50%.’
2.5 / 8 * £100,000 x [50 - 32.5] / 32.5
= £16,826.92
Estimate his increase in value with the following:
How to calculate training ROI
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DO ACCOUNTANTS REALLY KNOW EXCEL?
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30 years since its launch, Microso� Excel is more popular than ever.
1 billion people use the program.
A survey of 250 professionals indicated that workers use Excel for more than an hour every day.
For example, these 45k workers only got 28% of our Filtered Excel questions correct.
Accountants, understandably confident at Excel, were only the 3rd most proficient group of professionals.
Almost 50% of the questions were answered incorrectly, even by top accountants.
However, our study of 45,000 o�ice workers revealed that, despite using Excel daily, major, fundamental knowledge gaps are the norm.
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