About Microsoft Excel Data Analysis Reporting

Microsoft Excel Data Analysis, Reporting

Learn time saving techniques to analyse and report business data sets, using a wide range of invaluable formulas and fairly simple techniques. We come across many people who waste so much time using old techniques and a limited portfolio of formulas. This course will bring you up to date using Excel 2016’s latest toolkit.

The course is very interactive and you are encouraged to ask questions about your data.

Is this course for you?

You are required to analyse company data and create accurate professional reports.

Training Options

Join this scheduled course at our training centre in Whiteley, near Fareham, Portsmouth and Southampton.
Or, consider onsite training using our computers at no extra cost.

Course Includes

• Lunch and Refreshments – Lunch at Caffe Dallucci (Whiteley only)
• Microsoft Training Manual
• Post course training downloads
• Certificate on completion
• Post course support relating to course content

Related courses

Microsoft Excel Business Performance  |  Data Analysis Microsoft Excel  |  Microsoft Excel VBA Macro Introduction

Aim

To use a range of creative Excel techniques to Analyse and Report business data.

Course Objectives

• Use a combination of formulas to manage, separate, combine data.
• Use the IF and IFERROR functions to calculate a value based on specified criteria; use conditional functions to summarize data; use PMT function to calculate periodic payments for a loan; use text functions to extract data strings; use date functions to calculate duration in years, months, and days; create array formulas to perform multiple calculations on multiple sets of data at one time.
• Use VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP functions to find values in worksheet data; MATCH function to find the relative position of a value in a range; INDEX function to find the value of a cell at a given position in a range; and use data tables to project values.
• Use the Data Validation feature to validate data entered in cells; and advanced filter options to display specific data.
• Format data points in charts; create combination charts and trendlines; insert sparklines; use chart templates.
• Create a PivotTable for analysing and compare large amounts of data; modify the PivotTable view by using slicers to filter data; improve the appearance of a PivotTable by changing its field and style settings; create a PivotChart to graphically display data from a PivotTable.
• Export and import data
• Use the Goal Seek, Solver and Scenario utilities to meet a target output by adjusting the values in the input cells; create scenarios to save important input values that produce different results.

Excel Data Analysis and Reporting

Data

Use data from a 3rd party system in a CSV format.

Import CSV data into Excel format.

Change data orientation into columns.

Clean and manipulate large sets of data

Remove unwanted elements of data ‘ ; etc

Learn how to use individual and combined formulas to edit, separate and join data.

Advanced functions and formulas

Logical & Conditional functions | Financial functions | Text functions | Date functions | Array formulas

Lookups and data tables

Using lookup functions | Using MATCH and INDEX | Creating data tables

Advanced data management

Validating cell entries | Advanced filtering

Advanced charting

Chart formatting options | Combination charts | Graphical objects

PivotTables and PivotCharts and Slicers

Working with PivotTables | Modifying PivotTable data | Formatting PivotTables | Using PivotCharts | Create Slicers

Analytical tools

Goal Seek | Solver | Scenarios