Most Office users are very familiar with word processing and spreadsheets but have less experience of, and expertise in, Microsoft Access. This course will help overcome the hurdle of getting to grips with database technology and show how a reasonable understanding of Access can improve many aspects of your business IT systems. The course will use practical case studies to help you create simple procedures that you can use in your own business.

Accountants in practice or business who use the Microsoft Office suite and accounting software and are keen to find out more about how best to extract, combine and work with the data at the heart of their business.

• Introduction to databases – how to decide what to put where
• The missing link – how Access can help you use Excel to get the information you want, how you want to see it.
• Combine data from different sources and add whatever is missing
• Go further with Access – never again use Excel for data entry, an introduction to simple Access forms
• Use Access to help manage your reporting
• It's not all good – database dangers