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Power Excel: Analyzing Data to Make Business DecisionsAchieving Competitive Advantage
Course: 195
Type: Hands-On Training
Duration: 2 Days
You Will Learn How To
- Leverage features of Microsoft Excel to facilitate business decisions
- Develop intelligent worksheets to quickly identify Key Point Indicators (KPIs)
- Perform "what-if" analysis for developing budget and project plans
- Consolidate and process multidimensional worksheets
- Summarize and analyze large amounts of data using PivotTables and Excel features
- Automate Excel processes and enhance worksheet models
Course Benefits In today's fast-paced business climate, it is vital that decisions are made quickly and accurately. In this course, you use Excel techniques to build sophisticated spreadsheets. You learn to perform "what-if" analysis, apply functions, manipulate PivotTables and present your results to make better decisions for planning, budgeting and more.Who Should Attend Business and technical professionals making decisions based on data analysis, or anyone who wants to increase their knowledge of intermediate to advanced features in Excel. Experience with Excel at an introductory level is assumed.Hands-On Training Hands-on exercises provide you with practical experience using Excel. Exercises include:
- Performing statistical and financial calculations
- Reducing speculation with "what-if" analysis
- Summarizing data contained in 3-D worksheets
- Defining the best combination of values to solve complex business problems
- Designing formulas that capture errors and require less maintenance
- Creating interactive data reports with PivotTables
- Developing macros to simplify data analysis
Course 195 Content
- Planning effective worksheets and workbooks to improve workbook maintenance
- Highlighting KPIs and data anomalies with conditional formatting
- Managing variables in worksheets with Scenarios
- Comparing and contrasting different datasets with scenario reports
- Determining the magnitude of a variable with Goal Seek to achieve an end value
- Calculating the optimum variable values in a worksheet model with Solver
- Discovering and implementing functions with the FX tool
- Interpreting calculations with the Formula Auditing tools
- Identifying the correct statistical function to aid analysis
- Applying basic financial functions
- Differentiating serial dates and date presentations
- Calculating the number of working days using the Analysis Toolpak
- Troubleshooting calculations with the Function Arguments tool
- Interpreting data variations with the IF function
- Developing nested functions to cope with multiple conditions
- Capturing information with lookup functions
- Handling missing information
- Checking data for uniqueness
- Arranging multiple workbooks with Workspaces
- Managing external links
- Building 3-D formulas to analyze worksheet data
- Summarizing multiple sources of Excel information into one worksheet
- Managing multiple datasets on a single worksheet with the Table feature
- Defining an Excel list to ensure appropriate use of built-in list features
- Extracting unique lists of records from an Excel list
- Analyzing lists with filters and aggregation
- Calculating subtotals and grand totals
- Creating interactive PivotTables and PivotCharts for real-time data analysis
- Comparing related totals dynamically
- Extracting and filtering records
- Defining data summaries interactively
- Presenting PivotTable reports effectively
- Recording and executing macros to simplify complex tasks
- Invoking macros with Form controls
- Working with the Visual Basic Editor
- Identifying the composition of a macro
- Troubleshooting and interpreting code in a macro procedure
- Modifying macros in the code window
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