What is Spreadsheet Safe?
Spreadsheet Safe is an innovative training and certification programme designed to help spreadsheet end-users and organisations assure and maintain good spreadsheet design, usage and control.
Course Audience?
Spreadsheet Safe is aimed at everyday practitioner spreadsheet end-users who work with important, business critical spreadsheets used for decision making. This course is suitable for existing spreadsheet users who have an Intermediate knowledge of Excel.
Who developed it?
The certification programme has been developed by Q-Validus, in conjunction with, BPP Learning Media and BTL Learning & Assessment
What does a Candidate get?
The Spreadsheet Safe programme provides standardised solutions for Candidates:
- Training Manual
- Online Training
- Certification Test
- Spreadsheet Safe Certificate, awarded on successful completion of Certification Test
Benefits
- Provides hard skills so candidates develop self-checking routines and instincts to ensure that all
spreadsheet inputs, calculations and outputs are valid and reliable. - Develops some of the soft skills around spreadsheet usage and encourages behavioural best
practices; develops end-user awareness of their own responsibility with regard to spreadsheets. - Introduces best practice standards leading to increased spreadsheet integrity and accuracy, as well as providing auditable outputs.
How to get certified?
This 1 day training and certification programme is provided at Authorised Centres, for a full list click here.
In-house training can also be arranged as well as a mobile classroom option in a nearby hotel or suitable facility, for further information contact centres@spreadsheetsafe.com