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Why Choose this Course?

This course is aimed at professionals who have, or will soon have, responsibility for managing and manipulating data using MS Excel on a day to day basis. The course assumes zero knowledge, begins with an introduction to the Excel environment and ends with delegates being skilled in using 50+ MS Excel functions, sophisticated data management and charting techniques and advanced data analysis capability.

Do you still think that Excel is a tool that is used only by people in your company’s finance department? If so, you are wrong. It does have fantastic financial modeling capability but it offers so much more than that. Excel is not reserved for financial data. Everyone in middle to senior management manages some kind of data and hence the need to attend this course.

This course will feature:

Advanced data analysis
Both textual and numerical data
Forecasting
Advanced charting
Scenario analysis

What are the Goals?

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyse relationships across information and data using MS Excel.
Generate data forecasts using MS Excel.
Organise your company’s data in a more structured manner.
Analyse your data effectively using various MS Excel techniques.
Select the appropriate chart for your data.

Who is this Course for?

This course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

Administrators using MS Excel at a very basic level
Administrators with a need to improve data management techniques utilising MS Excel
New Administrative Staff with no prior knowledge of MS Excel
HR professionals seeking to use MS Excel to analyse employee data and inventory data
Oil and Gas, telecommunications and electricity industry employees looking to improve their data management and data representation skills

How will this be Presented?

This course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The course will be split up into themes with a series of exercises based on each theme. The approach will also be incremental with each session building on prior knowledge. Each delegate will be introduced to practical, hands-on learning using MS Excel.

Delegates can bring their own Windows or Mac OS laptop also to the sessions, for them to be comfortable with the environment and version of MS Excel that they will be working on.

The Course Content

Day One

An Introduction to the MS Excel Environment

Cell referencing, cell formatting and entering formula
Workbooks versus Worksheets
Copy and pasting
Left click versus right click
Paste Special
Introductory charts

Day Two

Using MS Excel Functions for Fundamental Data Analysis

Use of text function, FIND(), LEN(), LEFT(), RIGHT() and &
Use of count functions, COUNTA(), COUNTIF(), COUNTIFS() and SUMIF()
Basic statistical functions, Max and Average
Filtering, sorting and use of conditional formatting
Scatter diagrams

Day Three

Intermediate MS Excel Functions

Use of VLOOKUP() and HLOOKUP()
Date functions, YEAR(), MONTH(), DAY(), YEARFRAC()
Selecting appropriate charts
Introduction to Pivot tables

Day Four

Carrying out Statistical Analysis using MS Excel

Using MS Excel to calculate mean, mode and median
The difference between the various standard deviation and variance function in MS Excel
Using MS Excel to examine inter-dependency
Drawing histograms in MS Excel
Introduction to Data Analysis functions

Day Five

What if and Scenario Analysis Using MS Excel

Naming cells in MS Excel
Linking cells together to undertake scenario analysis
Introduction to solver
Advanced charting
Sharing MS Excel output with other office formats

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