Introduction
Though many professionals use Excel on a daily basis, Excel has many undiscovered functions that can increase productivity even further. In this course, we will explore one of the relatively new tools brought by Excel to help professionals in cleaning up and preparing data for further analysis and reporting: Power Query. This tool is available as an "Add in" on Excel 2013 but comes readily available on Excel 2016 and newer versions. In addition, we will cover many features of pivot tables which is the main reporting tool in Excel. We will also take a look at PowerPivot, another powerful tool in Excel which will put your pivot tables on turbo. While pivot tables have some limitations, PowerPivot can be used when you have significantly big data. The last part of the course is dedicated to automating your Excel reports and reconciliation through the use of macros.
Course Methodology
This is a hands-on course with practical applications and use of Microsoft Excel 2016 throughout the five days. All examples, exercises and cases are practiced in Excel.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Apply key Excel functions to prepare data for analysis using pivot tables
- Create and customize pivot tables to reconcile and analyze accounts efficiently
- Utilize Power Query to clean up and prepare data for reporting
- Utilize pivot tables functions and calculations to generate a set of management and business analysis reports
- Run macros to speed up work and utilize other advanced techniques in data analysis and reporting
- Report and analyze big data using PowerPivot
Target Audience
Accountants, senior and junior accountants, business analysts, accounting and finance professionals, business analysts, research professionals and staff from any function who need to master and upgrade their skills in Excel pivot tables, Power Query and Power Pivots and work with big data analysis.
Target Competencies
- Power Query
- Practicing pivot tables
- Working with PowerPivot
- Reporting
- Analyzing business data
- Designing basic macros
Course Outlines
Day1
Key functions to prepare data for pivot table reporting
- Table format
- Lookup functions
- Text functions
- Naming cells
Day 2
Advanced techniques in creating and customizing pivot tables
- Number and cell format
- Report layout
- Calculation in value field
- Grouping and un-grouping fields
- Default and customized sorting and filtering
- Sorting using custom list
- Creating calculated field
- Filtering using slicers and timelines
- Connecting multiple pivot tables to one set of slicers
- Customizing reports using the GetPivotData option
Day 3
Power Query: A must-have skill
- Introduction to this new feature
- Where does Power Query fit in the Power family!
- Get and transform: Link your Excel to external other data sources
- Excel files
- Text files
- Web
- SQL
- Creating and editing the Query
- Get data from: Tables, files and folders
- Power Query to clean up data
- Practical examples:
- UnPivotting data
- Working with nested column headers and merged cells
- Naming, merging, splitting and removing columns
- Filtering rows in different ways
- Transforming and formatting data
- Combining queries: Merge and Append
- The different types of joining data
Day4
Analyzing disparate data sources with pivot tables
- Utilizing pivot table wizard
- Using internal data model
- Building pivot tables using external data sources
The new world of PowerPivot
- Benefits and drawbacks of PowerPivot
- Merging data from multiple tables without using V-Lookup
- Creating better calculations using the DAX Formulas
- Using DAX to create calculated fields
- Calculate and Related functions
Day 5
Introduction to Macros: Let Excel do the work for you
- Where you cannot use Power Query, use macros
- Planning your macro
- Creating and recording macros
- Editing macros
- Introduction to Visual Basic for Application (VBA)
About Amsterdam
Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, is a popular destination amongst travelers from all around the world. Once just a little fishing village, Amsterdam is now a major international city after having become an important port during the 1600s. Throughout its history, the city has had many famous residents, including artists, philosophers and other historical figures. There is much to discover along Amsterdam's quaint streets and picturesque canals. So much so that a flight to Amsterdam comes with a guarantee of cultural and historical attractions that will provide memories to last a lifetime. Amsterdam is a hotbed of culture for travelers of all ages and tastes.
Things to do and places to visit in Amsterdam
From the moment passengers step off their flight to Amsterdam, they will find it a friendly city with a lively atmosphere. Its flat geography means that it is perfect for exploring by bicycle. If you're feeling less active, it the city is also well-served by public transport. The so-called Venice of the North has something for every visitor. Culture vultures have museums, galleries and theaters to see, Families can visit the zoo or the Science Center NEMO.
When visiting Amsterdam, be sure to:
- See the picture-perfect and colorful houses of the Grachtengordel district.
- See the iconic works of one of Holland's most famous artists at the Van Gogh Museum.
- Visit the house where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis.
- Browse through the extensive collection of fantastic art in the Rijksmusem.
- Wander through the blaze of colors that is the Singel Flower Market.
- See the city at a leisurely pace on a canal cruise.
- Marvel at one of the city's many historic churches.
- Learn about life aboard a ship at the National Maritime Museum.
- Discover the Begijnhof's well-preserved medieval architecture.
- See animals of all kinds, as well as the butterfly pavilion and aquarium, at the Artis Zoo.