



A Cornell graduate and Microsoft MVP with experience at Amazon, Goldman Sachs and PwC, Kenji co-founded Career Principles, an education platform focused on practical business, finance and data skills. His four-part Excel series takes you from navigation and formula fundamentals through PivotTables and charts to large-dataset analysis and automation, exactly the progression finance teams need.
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A CFA charterholder and one of only eight Master Financial Modelers in the world, Andrew founded the Financial Modeling World Cup and drives the Microsoft Excel World Championship. His view of what separates competent spreadsheet users from elite ones translates directly to the speed, accuracy and model design standards you can bring to your own work.
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Ian founded The Marquee Group in 2002 to deliver Excel-based financial modelling training to the financial community and has taught thousands of professionals across the UK, Canada, the US and Australia. His Financial Modeling learning path and Top 10 Pitfalls episode give you a disciplined framework for building models that are robust, auditable and persuasive.

CPD hours vary by course. Typically they range from 1 to 2 hours per podcast and 3 to 9 hours for an in-depth, multi-episode learning path. Each course listing clearly displays the hours you'll earn on completion. All hours are earned once you listen to the podcast episode in full and pass the chapter quizzes.
Excel is still the working language of UK finance teams. Management accounts, audit sampling, tax computations and forecasts all pass through spreadsheets, and the cost of a formula error can be material. Structured Excel training for accountants helps you move beyond the intermediate level, use PivotTables, lookups and dynamic arrays with confidence, and understand where Power Query, Power BI and Copilot now do the heavy lifting.
Because UK CPD is output-based, improving a skill you use every day is exactly the kind of relevant, verifiable continuing education activity your professional body expects you to record.
Requirements vary by professional body:
ICAEW: Total annual CPD hours depend on your CPD category (from 20 hours with 10 verifiable up to 40 hours with 30 verifiable), plus a mandatory minimum of 1 verifiable hour of ethics CPD every year.
ACCA: The standard route is 40 units of CPD per year (1 unit = 1 hour), of which at least 21 units must be verifiable.
AAT: CPD is mandatory for affiliate and professional members and is measured by outcomes rather than a set number of hours; members plan, record and review learning against the AAT CPD cycle.
CIOT and ATT: Since 1 January 2023 there is no fixed minimum-hours requirement; members undertake CPD appropriate to their duties and self-certify annually.
No. Each episode is designed to be understood by ear, explaining the logic behind formulas, data structures and visualisation choices so you know what to build and why. Many learners listen first, then open the workbook and practise. Online CPD on the move is what makes it possible to fit Excel courses for accountants around a busy month-end.
Navigation and formula fundamentals, lookups and referencing, PivotTables and charts, large-dataset analysis and automation, financial modelling best practice, Power BI data transformation and Copilot in Excel, plus the Excel tips for accountants that data-driven auditors and FP&A teams use day to day.
No. LumiQ is not a regulated qualification, and UK accountancy bodies do not require a CPD accredited Excel course or a CPD certified course; what they require is relevant learning you can evidence. Every completed episode produces a certificate of completion stating the verifiable CPD hours earned.
Yes. Upon successful completion of an episode, our system automatically generates a certificate of completion confirming the CPD hours earned. It lives in your tracker and can be downloaded at any time as evidence for your verifiable CPD record.
Yes, we’ve got an app for both Apple and Android devices. Click here to go to the Google Play Store and click here to go to the Apple App Store.
Yes, you can earn a few verifiable CPD hours as a trial with no credit card required. Simply sign up and we give you two weeks to try us out and redeem your free hours.
To purchase a full subscription, visit our pricing page. If you work for a company with a team of accountants, or others who may be interested, contact us for team pricing options.