Business Analytics with Excel

About the course

Microsoft Excel is the most commonly used analytics, reporting and strategy software. This course will equip the participants with data analytical skills using Excel’s features. The participants will be taught some statistical concepts on how to get insights from data and take data driven decisions using Excel.

The participant will also acquire skills in Excel pivots and their use to summarize data in flexible ways, enabling quick exploration of data and producing valuable insights from the accumulated data. The course will also include Power BI, which is the latest and the best tool provided by Microsoft for analytics and data visualization.

What you will learn:

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Understand importance of business analytics in business
• Understand fundamentals of excel analytics functions and conditional formatting
• Analyze with complex datasets using pivot tables and slicers
• Solve analytical problems using tools like scenario manager, solver and goal seek
• Apply statistical tools and concepts like moving average, hypothesis testing, ANOVA and regression to data sets using Excel
• Represent your findings using charts and dashboards
• Use Microsoft Power BI

Introduction to business analytics

• Types of analytics

• Application of business analytics

• Analysis vs analytics

Conditional formatting and Excel Functions

• Conditional formatting introduction

• Conditional formatting rules

• Conditional formatting examples

• Logical functions

• Lookup functions; HLOOKUP, VLOOKUP

• MATCH Fuctions

• Excel statistical functions

• IF Functions

Pivot Tables

• Introduction

• Pivot Table creation

• Grouping in Pivot Table

• Pivoting data

• Custom calculation

• Use of slicer

Excel Dashboards

• Excel charts

• Interactive charts

• Forms control in Excel

• Introduction to dashboards

• Creating interactive dashboards with form control

Excel VBA

• Excel VBA variables

• Conditional logic

• Strings in VBA

• Loops

• Arrays

• VBA Functions

Business Analytics using Excel

• Pivot Table, Pivot Chart and PowerPivot

• Scenario manager,Solver Addin ,Goal Seek

• Data Table

• Forecasting using excel

• Data visualization

• Excel reports and presentation

Data Analysis using Excel

• Hypothesis testing

• ANOVA

• Covariance

• Correlation

• Regression

• Normal Distribution

Power BI

• Power Pivot

• Power View

• Power Query

• Power Map