Advanced Excel: Power Query, Power Pivots and Macros

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.

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

• Accountants
• Senior accountants
• Junior accountants
• Business analysts
• Accounting professionals
• Finance professionals
• Research professionals
• Employees from any function who need to master Excel PivotTables, Power Query, and Power Pivot
• Professionals working with big data analysis and reporting