Brush Up Your Excel Skills: Excel at Work

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Do you know how to use Excel beyond adding cells and making bar charts? Whether Yes or No, you can learn more about Excel in AFSA’s newest event — Excel at Work.

Excel at Work is a two-part workshop designed to prepare students for co-op and future finance courses.

The workshop is in two parts, happening on next Monday November 10th, and next Wednesday November 12th.

The first part on Monday will be presented by Henry Yu. He will be giving a lesson on the simpler but frequently used Excel features, such as sort and filter, freeze panes, linking spreadsheets, array functions, dynamic and absolute references, shortcuts, hotkeys and more.

The second part on Wednesday will be presented by Professor Geoffrey. He will cover more advanced material for those who already have a good understanding of the basics of Excel. The lesson will include pivot tables, what-if analysis, solver, financial functions, and Macros.

The workshops will take place in MC 1056 at 6:00pm on both days. You are invited to come to either, or both of these sessions depending on where your excel skills are at. Make sure to check out our event pages on Facebook for more information.

Session 1 Event Page : https://www.facebook.com/events/214555608714712/

Session 2 Event Page : https://www.facebook.com/events/751174944917920/

Space is limited, make sure to pre-register on Eventbrite:

http://excelatwork1.eventbrite.ca

ELCD Social media contest

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In the month of November, the Experiential Learning and Career Development Team will be hosting their second social media contest. We’re inviting third and fourth year SAF students to share a piece of advice from one of their co-op terms (on-the job) that you think other students would find helpful (hint: check your reflection). You must post the piece of advice on the Experiential Learning and Career Development Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/SAF-Experiential-Learning-and-Career-Development/1492213051010572). Please attach the hashtag #SafCoopAdvice for your chance to win a $100 gift card. One student will be randomly selected. The contest will run from November 1st to 30th.

The second phase of the contest will commence December 1st. All SAF students will be encouraged to review the pieces of advice and like their favourtie piece of advice. The piece of advice that has the most likes will win a $100 gift card. As well, a student will be randomly selected who has liked a status to win a $100 gift card.

The Bubble Tea Talent Show

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The Bubble Tea Talent Show is a FREE event on Friday, November 14 where you can drink bubble tea and watch your talented friends in SAF compete for big prizes.

Are you talented? Do you think you'd be a good MC? Audition for the talent show and you could win BIG prizes! Sign up for auditions at bubbletea.youcanbook.me

Audition Times: Mon, November 3, 4-6:30pm in HH 1108

Tues, November 4, 1-3:30pm in EV2-2002
Wed, November 5, 12:30-2:30pm in ML 216

Thurs, November 6, 1-3:30pm in ML 216

A Boo-tiful Halloween Night

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HALLOWEEN IS COMING UP and I know all you beautiful people will be dressing up! Now you can win money by doing so! Enter in the AFSA A Boo-tiful Night Halloween contest and you can win $50 as well as FAME.

Simply like our page: www.facebook.com/bootifulnight and inbox your Halloween costume picture to us with the category you want to compete in! Winner of EACH category will receive a gift card of $50! Categories include: 1. Most creative 2. Cutest 3. Scariest & 4. Most jaw-dropping! (Your picture WILL be posted on the page and picture must of YOURSELF or you will be disqualified.)

Page is open for submissions starting Wednesday, Oct. 29th and will close for submissions Saturday, Nov. 1st 11:59 pm. HAVE A SAFE AND BOO-TIFUL HALLOWEEN!

AFSA Referendum Results

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AFSA is pleased to announce the results for the referendum. With approximately 30% voter turnout the referendum has passed with over a 90% approval rating.
Do you approve the revised Constitution of the Accounting and Finance Endowment Fund?
Ballots Cast: 509
In favour: 91%
Do you approve that AFSA become recognized as a society by the Federation of Students?
Ballots Cast: 470 In favour: 92%
Do you approve that all (5) board of directors representatives will be selected through an election process?
Ballots Cast: 447 In favour: 90%

Stay tuned for next steps and we hope to keep striving for a better SAF community. We will update students as AFSA progresses through the next few steps of the process related to Questions 1 and 2 on the referendum. The results of Question 3 will be reflected in the AFSA Constitution effective 2015-2016 elections for the upcoming school year.

If you have any questions regarding technical details of the results please email the Chair of the our Board at m.yang@uwafsa.ca