If you are using Excel as a tool at work, learning Finance principles or developing Excel financial models for third parties, you should find something of interest here. There are four books available focusing a different aspects of financial applications, though naturally there is some overlap.

Recall Excel is like every other software application - there are bugs in it, or at the very least peculiarities you need to be aware of once you start using the application in any professional way. There are functions which do not work across worksheets, dates that appear to have a life of their own, binary approximation errors, and lots more; but after all that Excel is extremely powerful and generally very stable.

The Texts
Although I have written about 7 books in this area, only four of them are shown here, and all relate to the use of Excel.

All of the texts use the idea of active learning, with heaps of worked examples, re-enforcing tasks and problems. It is tempting to skip the odd one to move on to something of greater apparent interest. However you will find the example often contain useful little Excel procedures or techniques which you can apply to some other totally unrelated topic, even if the Finance or Accounting principle is one with which you are fully familiar.

Take your time and enjoy.

The Workshops
I have run several of these workshops, as well as a Principles of Modelling course for several years in universities and for professional bodies and corporations.

They are constantly being changed of course as needs change, and hopefully I get better too. Several had been produced in varying forms for specific industries, but the principles remain the same.

A minimum number of 6 people seems to produce a viable number for promoters, and I have run them everywhere from Brisbane to Melbourne, from Port Hedland to Bunbury.

Numbers above 16 cause the usual problem of wide participant ability and skill level.