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Power Excel®: Analysing Data to Make Business Decisions
Achieving Competitive Advantage

Course: 195   Type: Hands-On   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
  • Summarise and analyse 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
  • Summarising 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 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
Optimising 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
Analysing 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
Summarising Business Information
Organising workbooks and links
  • Arranging multiple workbooks with Workspaces
  • Managing external links
Consolidating ranges
  • Building 3-D formulas to analyse worksheet data
  • Summarising 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
  • Analysing 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
Recognising 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: Analysing Data
Course Schedule
23 - 24 Jun, 2008
London
18 - 19 Aug, 2008
Edinburgh
26 - 27 Aug, 2008
London
20 - 21 Oct, 2008
London
24 - 25 Nov, 2008
Edinburgh
15 - 16 Dec, 2008
London
23 - 24 Feb, 2009
London
2 - 3 Mar, 2009
Edinburgh

Participants summarising data with PivotTables.

£ 1,095 - Standard Tuition
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£ 995 - Flex-Training Passport
£ 800 - Short Course Vouchers
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