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Power Excel: Analyzing Data to Make Business Decisions

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Course: 195     Type: Hands-On Training     Duration: 2 Days

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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
Business Solutions and Excel
Developing workbook models
  • Planning effective worksheets and workbooks to improve workbook maintenance
  • Highlighting KPIs and data anomalies with conditional formatting
Optimizing solutions with "what-if" analysis
  • Managing variables in worksheets with Scenarios
  • Comparing and contrasting different data sets 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
Analyzing and Deciphering Data
Evaluating data with Excel functions
  • Interpreting and implementing functions with the FX and 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
Controlling calculations and nested formulas
  • Interpreting data variations with the IF function
  • Developing nested functions to cope with multiple conditions
Extracting values with data-centered calculations
  • Capturing information with lookup functions
  • Handling missing information
  • Checking data for uniqueness
Summarizing Business Information
Organizing workbooks and links
  • Arranging multiple workbooks with Workspaces
  • Managing external links
Consolidating ranges
  • Building 3-D formulas to analyze worksheet data
  • Summarizing multiple sources of Excel information into one worksheet
Formulating Decisions from Database Information
Distilling lists for data analysis
  • 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
Defining subsets of data with Microsoft Query
  • Withdrawing data from external data sources using ODBC connections
  • Filtering and sorting data to refine extracted information
  • Controlling properties of an external data extract
Condensing and refining data with PivotTables and PivotCharts
  • 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
  • Exploiting OLAP cubes as a data source
Enhancing Excel Usage with Macros
Automating repetitive tasks
  • Recording and executing macros to simplify complex tasks
  • Invoking macros with Form controls
Recognizing the code behind a macro
  • 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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About the Course Author
Rima Chai

"In preparing this course, I wanted to give students the ability to apply Excel features towards solving their real-world problems. That includes writing formulas to interrogate datasets, quantifying variables using..."
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Course Tuition
$ 1,750 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 830 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 1,575 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 1,375 Government Discount
 

 

Power Excel: Analyzing Data to Make Business Decisions
Power Excel: Analyzing Data to Make Business Decisions
Participants summarizing data with PivotTables.

Certification Core Course CPE 11 Credits PMI 11 PDU 1 Hour(s) College Credit
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