The Spreadsheet Nobody Trusts

Every government office has one. The budget spreadsheet everyone uses but nobody fully trusts. The one where a formula broke sometime last year, someone patched it with a hard-coded number, and now three people quietly double-check it by hand before every report.

Sound familiar? Does this look like you?

You're not alone — and it's not really your fault. Most of us learned Excel by trial and error, picking up just enough to get today's task done. It works, until the file gets bigger, the deadline gets tighter, or someone asks a question the spreadsheet was never built to answer.

That's the gap our new programme, Microsoft Excel for Public Sector Data & Financial Analysis, is built to close.

It's three days, split into three levels — Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced — so you can join wherever you actually are, not where a course assumes you should be.

Day 1 is the foundation: clean data, core formulas, the habits that stop small errors becoming big ones.

Day 2 moves into lookups, PivotTables, and the financial functions behind budgeting and appraisal.

Day 3 goes further still — Power Query, linked financial models, dashboards, and a real case study, working through exactly the kind of decision a capital purchase or a donor report demands.

Every exercise is built around the work you actually do: budget registers, provincial returns, donor reporting, statistics under deadline. Not generic office tasks — the real thing.

You'll leave with a financial model you built yourself, a dashboard you can adapt for your own reporting, and a manual to keep at your desk for the next time a formula misbehaves.

Come for a day, or come for all three. Either way, you'll leave trusting your spreadsheet a lot more than when you walked in.

Enrol now — info@pacs-pacific.com | +678 593 6610 | www.pacs-pacific.com

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