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23 - 27 Mar 2025

Dubai (UAE)

Cost : 4565 € Euro

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)

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Training Course: Advanced Excel: Power Query, Power Pivots and Macros


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Quick Inquiry
Discount Group Download Brochure (36)

IT234694

23 - 27 Mar 2025

Dubai (UAE) -

Cost: 4565 € Euro


  About Dubai

Dubai, located on the Persian Gulf, is one of the seven United Arab Emirates and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. The discovery of oil in the region has made Dubai extremely wealthy, allowing it to build the glittering skyscrapers that it is now famous for. That wealth is strongly in evidence in Dubai and visitors will see luxurious buildings and supercars aplenty. Perfect beaches and endless shopping opportunities are to key to Dubai's attractions. Flights to Dubai open up the city's cultural attractions to tourists, with beautiful mosques, museums and art galleries scattered throughout this ultra-modern metropolis.


  Things to do and places to visit in Dubai

Dubai's wealth has made it famous for building ever taller buildings and creating artificial islands off its shores. The city's hotels are luxurious and shoppers will love its extensive shopping malls which showcase all the world's top brands. Dubai's attractions don't end there. Dubai also caters to adventure lovers, who can jump in a 4x4 or on a board to speed over dunes outside the city. Local culture mustn't be forgotten either, and visitors have wonderful mosques to visit and old districts to explore. All that combined means that a flight to Dubai is sure to lead to an unforgettable holiday.

When visiting Dubai, be sure to:

  • Go to the observation deck of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.
  • Admire the intricately beautiful Grand Mosque, which has the tallest minaret in the city.
  • Understand the local history and culture with a visit to the Dubai Museum.
  • Discover objects from the 6th century at Jumeirah Archaeological Site.
  • Go skiing – That's not a joke, the Mall of the Emirates houses a snowdome.
  • Go shopping at the Mall of the Emirates or the Dubai Mall.
  • Explore the desert surrounding the city – either by 4x4 or atop a camel.
  • Eat fantastic seafood at Dubai Marina.
  • Cool off at the Wild Wadi Waterpark.
  • Marvel at gorgeous Arabic calligraphy at Jumeirah Mosque, the biggest in the city.
  • Take a yacht tour around the artificial islands of Palm Jumeirah.
  • Haggle for souvenirs in one of the city's souks.
  • Wander around the traditional building in Bastakiya District.
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