Advanced Excel: Functions, Power Query and Power Pivots

Why Attend

The "Advanced Excel: Functions, Power Query, and Power Pivots" training course delves into advanced, and most recently added, Excel functions like XLOOKUP, TEXTJOIN, TEXTSPLIT, UNIQUE, SORT, and FILTER, enabling you to streamline your data tasks with ease. The course will cover Power Query to import and transform data from various sources, such as Excel files, folders, PDFs, and websites, preparing it for further analysis and reporting. Additionally, the course introduces Power Pivots, which teaches you how to create sophisticated data models, establish relationships between tables, and craft decisive DAX measures for complex calculations. This course is designed to elevate your Excel skills, enhance your productivity, and provide you with the tools needed for advanced data analysis and reporting.

Course Methodology

This is a hands-on course with practical applications using Microsoft Excel 2021 or Office 365 throughout the five days. All examples, exercises, and cases are practiced in Excel.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Apply key Excel functions to prepare data for analysis and reporting
• Utilize pivot tables functions and calculations to generate a set of management and business analysis reports
• Utilize Power Query to clean up and prepare data for reporting
• Report and analyze big data using Power Pivots
• Utilize Excel automation solutions to speed up work

Target Audience

Accountants, senior and junior accountants, business analysts, accounting and finance professionals, business analysts, research professionals, and staff from any function who need to master and upgrade their skills in Excel functions, pivot tables, Power Query, and Power Pivots and work with big data analysis.

Target Competencies

• Excel functions
• Power Query
• Practicing pivot tables
• Utilizing Power Pivot
• Reporting
• Analyzing business data

Note

This is a hands-on training course using laptops, which Plus will provide for the duration of the course.