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Power Excel: Analyzing Data to Make Business Decisions

Achieving 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

Related Courses

 
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Upcoming Dates

Sep 8 - 9, 2008
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Sep 8 - 9, 2008
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Sep 22 - 23, 2008
 Dallas
Sep 29 - 30, 2008
 Boston (Waltham)
Oct 6 - 7, 2008
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Oct 20 - 21, 2008
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Oct 27 - 28, 2008
 New York
Nov 3 - 4, 2008
 Toronto
Nov 10 - 11, 2008
 Ottawa
Nov 17 - 18, 2008
 Chicago (Downtown)
Dec 1 - 2, 2008
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Dec 8 - 9, 2008
 New York
Dec 15 - 16, 2008
 Irvine, CA
Dec 15 - 16, 2008
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Jan 5 - 6, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)

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Power Excel: Analyzing Data to Make Business Decisions

Achieving Competitive Advantage
 
Course: 195   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 2 Days
 
 
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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Power Excel: Analyzing Data to Make Business Decisions Tuition

Achieving Competitive Advantage
 
Course: 195   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 2 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 1,750 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,580 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
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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