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Advanced Excel for Analytics
Course Prerequisite(s)
- Please note that this course has the following prerequisites which must be completed before it can be accessed
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Intermediate Excel for Working with Data
What I will learn?
- Craft professional spreadsheets with a focus on accuracy, flexibility, user-friendliness, and clear documentation.
- Advanced Formulas & Functions: Unlock the power of array formulas, structured references, and advanced functions for complex data manipulation and analysis.
- Data Cleaning & Preparation: Master techniques to clean and prepare messy data sets for accurate and efficient analysis.
- Financial Analysis: Leverage Excel's financial functions to perform crucial calculations like loan schedules, present value analysis, and depreciation.
- Advanced Lookups & Automation: Automate tasks and enhance efficiency with advanced lookup techniques using INDIRECT, ADDRESS, OFFSET, and INDEX functions.
- Professional Dashboard Creation: Learn to design and build interactive dashboards that effectively communicate insights and data stories.
Course Curriculum
Spreadsheet Design and Documentation
This first topic of the advanced course focuses on creating and maintaining accurate, flexible, responsive, and user-friendly spreadsheets. You'll learn how to develop flexible and auditable spreadsheets, as well as how to build transparent calculations, make user-friendly navigation, and use styles, themes, and formatting to tie everything together nicely.
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Spreadsheet Design Principles
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Calculations
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Formatting
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Documentation
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Interface and Navigation
Advanced Formula Techniques
Excel frequently needs you to conduct complex analyses on enormous data sets. Array Formulas, which can run several calculations simultaneously and verify the accuracy of your spreadsheet, may make this a lot easier. This topic explains how to use Array Formulas, including how to use array formulas in calculations, Apply structured references in formulas, explain and build formulas with array formulas, and how to use them effectively.
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Tables and Structured Referencing
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Using Functions to Sort Data
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Introduction to Array Formulas
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Working with an Array Function (TRANSPOSE)
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Solving Problems with Array Formulas
Data Cleaning and Preparation
This topic focuses on data preparation and cleansing. You'll learn how to employ dynamic and automatic repairs to clean up problematic data, automate these procedures with functions, and keep data clean dynamically. To assist us to construct a long-lasting solution, we'll use functions to update dates, replace blanks, and eliminate undesirable characters from data.
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Replace blanks with repeating values
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Fix Dates (DATE, MONTH, YEAR, DAY, TEXT)
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Remove Unwanted Spaces (TRIM, CLEAN)
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Diagnostic Tools (ISNUMBER, LEN, CODE)
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Remove UNwanted Characters (SUBSTITUTE, CHAR, VALUE)
Financial Functions and Working with Dates
Financial functions are introduced in this module to our Excel knowledge base. Financial operations are frequently utilized in businesses, and Excel has a number of features to assist you. In this topic, you'll learn how to employ date formulas in calculations, establish loan schedules with financial functions, and use depreciation functions.
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Working with Dates (EOMONTH, EDATE, WORKDAY.INTL)
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Financial Functions (FV, PV, PMT)
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Loan Schedule (PMT, EDATE)
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Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return (NPV, IRR)
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Depreciation Functions (SLN, SYD, DDB)
Advanced Lookup Functions
Making your spreadsheets (and job!) more automatic is always a smart idea. Automated lookups can help you get more done in less time. This topic improves your array skills by looking at how to create dynamic lookup ranges using INDIRECT, ADDRESS, OFFSET, and INDEX functions.
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INDIRECT
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ADDRESS
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Introduction to OFFSET
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Solving Problems with OFFSET
Building Professional Dashboard
This topic brings it all together by guiding you through the steps of creating a professional dashboard. Data is pointless unless it can be used to tell a story and provide business intelligence. This session will teach you how to design a dashboard, including how to use graphs and charts to visualize data, create data models, and add interactivity.
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Dashboard Design
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Prepare Data
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Construct Dashboard
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Creative Charting
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Interactive Dashboard
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270$
385$
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LevelExpert
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Duration24 hours
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Last UpdatedNovember 27, 2024
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CertificateCertificate of completion
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Material Includes
- Lesson document
- Slide
- Quiz
- Assignment
Requirements
- In order to work alongside our teaching staff and to complete the assessments in this course, you will need to have access to a computer and to the software Excel (at least version 2013 but preferably 2016 or 2019). In this course, we are using Excel 2019 (Office 365).
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Target Audience
- Intermediate Excel Users
- Data Analysts
- Spreadsheet Builders
- Financial Professionals
- Report Creators
