Excel for Business Analysts

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Excel for Business Analysts

DURATION: 7.14 hours
VIDEOS: 53
LEVEL: Intermediate

Microsoft Excel remains one of the best tools for Data Analysis. In this course, we focus on the specific functions, formulas, and tools that Excel has to help conduct business or data analysis.

We start by looking at how to take raw data and clean it so it’s in a usable format. After that, we look at a number of tools and functions that can be used to conduct analysis before moving onto how to display data in the most meaningful way. Finally, we move onto some more advanced techniques designed to aid forecasting and using existing data to predict future trends.

This course also includes practice exercises so you can immediately put into practice the new data analysis techniques that you learn.

In this course you will learn:

How to merge data from different sources using VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX MATCH, and XLOOKUP
How to use IF, IFS, IFERROR, SUMIF, and COUNTIF to apply logic to your analysis
How to split data using text functions SEARCH, LEFT, RIGHT, MID
How to standardize and clean data ready for analysis
About using the PivotTable function to perform data analysis
How to use slicers to draw out information
How to display your analysis using Pivot Charts
All about forecasting and using the Forecast Sheets
Conducting a Linear Forecast and Forecast Smoothing
How to use Conditional Formatting to highlight areas of your data
All about Histograms and Regression
How to use Goal Seek, Scenario Manager, and Solver to fill data gaps

Course Format

This is a video-led, Advanced Microsoft Excel training course. You can preview some videos in the pane above. This course includes practice exercises so you can practice as you learn. This course is designed for PC users and does require a working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

This course is also suitable for Office 365 users.

Excel for Business Analysts

The course comes with exercise files and instructor demo files. You will need to download both the Excel for Business Analysts Exercise Files and the Excel for Business Analysts Instructor Demo Files to your PC or Mac (the files are not compatible with a mobile device).

Click on the below to open DropBox in a new browser tab, then click on “Download” in the top right-hand corner. Once downloaded you’ll have access to all the files included.

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