Description
Objectives
Recipients
Anyone working in companies, financial institutions or organizations, as well as freelancers, interested in enriching their business intelligence skills and making advanced use of the potential of Excel for data analysis and management.
Take away
The course aims to train students to develop business recommendations for their external and internal customers based on the in-depth analysis and manipulation of data present in company information systems that can commonly be downloaded onto Excel spreadsheets.
Program
Basic notions
- Relative and absolute references in formulas
- Conditional formatting
- Basic level shortcuts
Using filters
Using PivotTables
Using the functions
- Functions (e.g. DAY, MONTH, and YEAR)
- Text functions to transform and process text strings within a cell (e.g., LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN, FIND, TRIM, CONCATENATE, SUBSTITUTE and Text to Columns function ) and their combinations
- Information functions (e.g. ISERROR, ISBLANK, ISNUMBER, ISTEXT, ISODD, and ISEVEN)
- Logical functions to set conditions (e.g., IF, IFS, AND, and OR)
- Mathematical functions for performing complex algebraic calculations (e.g., SUMIF, SUMIFS, COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, TRANSPOSE, SUMPRODUCT, and SUBTOTAL)
- Search functions VLOOKUP (false and true variants ), HLOOKUP (false and true variants ), XLOOKUP (false and true variants ), MATCH (false and true variants ), and INDEX
Auditing formula (e.g., Tracking and Verification / Control)
Advanced ADDRESS and INDIRECT search functions
Function combinations
3D functions
Goal seek and solver
“Drop down” menu
Scenario Analysis
Hyperlinks

