In-depth Excel Training, Executive Dashboards & Business Data Analysis

Microsoft Excel is the world's most used business intelligence tool. Its knowledge is even compulsory for an MBA degree and the business world depends greatly on it. 

This training is aimed at making you extremely good in Microsoft Excel, dashboard making and business data analysis, teaching you with live business scenarios.

It's intended for Sales Managers, Financial Analysts, Business Analysts, Data Analysts, MIS Analysts, HR Executives and power Excel users.

There are just 10 slots open for this month. You will get lunch, a branded DVD with over 23 training videos and practice files, training notepad with pen and a training certificate from us (a registered Microsoft Partner). The training will be facilitated by a Microsoft recognized Excel Expert and the only Microsoft Excel MVP in Africa (there are just about 125 in the world). We have had participants of our trainings from Citi Bank, Dalberg, SaveTheChildren, Mobil, Total, Vodacom, Nestle, Nigerian Breweries, Delta Afrik, LATC Marine, Broll, Habanera (JTI), SABMiller, IBM, Airtel and DDB.

Reach Michael on 08089382423, 08063125227 and mike@urbizedge.com or Hannah on 08021180874 and hannah@urbizedge.com to register.

Venue: Kristina Jade Learning Center, 70b Olorunlogbonstreet, beside Banex Hotels, Anthony Village, Lagos.

The training outline is:

1) Data Manipulation in Excel

a. How Excel handles different data types

b. Data consistency, starting with the end in view

c. Building Datasheets that can easily scale

d. Sorting

i. Multi-level sorting

ii. Sorting across rows (left to right sorting, not the usual up to down sorting)

iii. Sorting and Conditional Formatting to identify trends

e. Filtering

f. Data cleaning

i. Removing duplicates

ii. Text-to-column

iii. Grouping

iv. Data Validation

v. Conditional Formatting

g. Data formatting

i. Using Tables (and when to convert to tables)

ii. Formatting for printing

iii. Formatting for email

iv. Data Review and formatting for 3rd party use

h. Named Ranges

2) Charts

a. Chart types

i. Line chart and when to use it

ii. Column chart and when to use it

iii. Bar chart and when to use it

iv. Pie chart and when to use it

b. Combining charts; when and how.

c. Dynamic Charts, using filter.

d. Best practices when making charts

e. Sparklines

f. Power Map and Power View (Excel 2013)

3) Pivot Table, Pivot Chart and PowerPivot

a. Pivot Table

i. Default Pivot Table

ii. Tabular Pivot Table

iii. Pivot Table Filtering

iv. Making a very dynamic regular table from Pivot Table

v. Calculations and Formula use with Pivot Table

vi. Advanced Pivot Table tricks

b. Pivot Chart

i. Pivot Chart and its limitations

ii. Dynamic Pivot Charts

c. PowerPivot (for Excel 2010 and 2013)

4) Business Data Analysis

a. Linking sheets

b. Duplicating sheets (better than copy and paste)

c. Inserting sheets, labeling and coloring the professional way

d. Freezing Panes and splitting windows

e. Conditional formatting

i. To identify patterns

ii. Using formulae

iii. To make extremely intelligent reports

f. Lookup functions

i. Vlookup

ii. Hlookup

iii. Looking up the last data or pattern in a particular row or column

iv. Overcoming the limitations of Vlookup and Hlookup using index and match functions

g. Power Functions

i. IF, IFERROR, AND, OR, ISBLANK, and others in the same family

ii. TEXT manipulative functions to make a completely automated Dashboard

iii. COUNTIFS, SUMIFS, AVERAGEIFS and others, to make dynamic summary tables

iv. MATCH and INDEX to do the impossible

h. Other Functions

i. Math Functions

ii. Text Functions

iii. Logical

iv. Others

i. Formula Auditing

j. Goal Seek, Scenario Manager and Solver

k. Excel Web Query

l. Most useful Excel keyboard shortcuts

5) Executive Dashboards and Reporting

a. Best Practices

b. Executive Dashboards

i. Executive Dasboards

ii. Dynamic Reports

iii. Determining the KPIs and tracking them

iv. Strategic Insights & Analysis

c. Data Visualization

d. Having the audience/recipient in mind

e. E-mails and Excel reports

6) Excel to PowerPoint and Word

a. Linking PowerPoint/Word Charts to Excel

b. Embedding Excel sheets in PowerPoint/Word

c. Making a Powerful PowerPoint Presentation

7) Excel VBA

a. Recording Excel macros

Reach Michael on 08089382423, 08063125227 and mike@urbizedge.com or Hannah on 08021180874 and hannah@urbizedge.com to register.