PowerPoint Advanced - Take Presentations From Good to Great Webinar

Oct 4
11:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Online

2-Other
CPE Credits

Learn how to leverage the more advanced features of PowerPoint to take your presentations to the next level. You’ll create more effective presentations with a multitude of advanced features. We will cover slide transitions and animations as well as embedding audio and video content into your presentations. We will also discuss how to leverage the full capability of SmartArt to make your presentations pop. You will also learn how to customize the master layouts to visually improve your presentation by creating a standard custom look. We will discuss how to build your own theme and slide layout templates. Once your presentation is complete, we will take you through advanced slideshow presentation techniques. Be prepared to wow your audiences! This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Learning Objectives:
After attending the presentation you will be able to...

Recognize how to make your presentations more engaging by adding slide transitions and animation.
Apply PowerPoint features to bring your presentations up to modern day standards by incorporating multimedia audio and video files.
Apply the PowerPoint features to link your Excel spreadsheet data and charts to create a powerful financial/statistical data presentation.
Formulate your organization's brand by creating a custom theme.
Apply custom slide layouts tailored to your style.

Highlights

The major subjects that will be covered in this course include:

Using slide transitions and animation
Customizing the slide layout, handout and notes masters
Designing your own theme
Inserting Excel charts and data
Integrating audio and video files into your presentation
Useful add-on tools and reference materials

Registration

PICPA Member: $79
Nonmember: $104

More Information

Course No. CXOPPT102W2 Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with PowerPoint

Notes
This webinar is hosted by PICPA's partner, CPA Crossings, LLC. After registering, you will receive an email from messenger@webex.com with the log-in information.

Speaker(s)

John Higgins

John H. Higgins, CPA.CITP
Chief Partnership Officer
Strategic Advisor
CPA Crossings LLC

John serves as a strategic technology advisor to CPAs in the planning and deployment of effective technology solutions and workflow automation. As a co-founder of CPA Crossings, John specializes in facilitating the development of strategic technology plans, paperless workflows, client portal solutions and a comprehensive digital practice model. John recently co-authored "Ten Steps to a Digital Practice in the Cloud", published by the AICPA. This book provides CPAs with a strategic roadmap for taking their firms online by leveraging cloud computing. John also developed an innovative model for delivering live CPE courses that utilize the Apple iPad to provide electronic course materials and an interactive classroom environment. John’s primary qualification is his passion for helping CPAs achieve success by leveraging technology. He has extensive knowledge and experience working with CPAs throughout the country.

Qualifications and Experience:

Actively involved in working with local, regional and national CPA firms over the past 25 years in the implementation of technology to automate business processes.
Awarded for being one of the Top 25 Thought Leaders in the accounting profession by The CPA Practice Advisor (www.cpapracticeadvisor.com) in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Co-author of "10 Steps to a Digital Practice in the Cloud," published by the American Institute of CPAs.
Facilitated hundreds of planning sessions and retreats to develop strategic plans, technology plans, workflow design, innovative client services and more.
Nationally recognized speaker and author on technology issues affecting the CPA profession, with an emphasis on transforming to a digital practice model.
Author of the annual Document Management Software Review for the CPA Practice Advisor magazine.
Former national consulting partner with a top 10 CPA firm.
Member of the AICPA Business & Industry Hall of Fame.
Past Chair of the Michigan Association of CPAs.
Past member of the AICPA Council and CPE Advisory Committee.
MACPA Innovative User of Technology award recipient.

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