The British Academy for Training and Development offers a comprehensive Advanced Excel: Functions, Power Query and Power Pivots Training Course. Many professionals are using excel on a daily basis. It, however, has even more functions which most of the users have never found out. This course on Excel will look into one such tool, a rather new addition into Excel for helping professionals in cleaning and preparing data for further analysis and reporting Power Query. PowerPivots are the other powerful tool in excel that will put your pivot tables on turbo. Though with much limitation, pivot tables are sometimes failing when it is really big data.

This advanced excel training has two specific advanced excel features, Power Pivot and Power Query. This entire suite of excel functions gives you the access to manipulate, analyze, and evaluate millions of rows of data from excel or other databases.

Objectives:

At the end of the Advanced Excel: Power Query and Power Pivots Training Course, attendees will be able to: 

Apply key Excel functions to prepare data for analysis using pivot tablesCreate and customise pivot tables to reconcile and analyze accounts efficientlyUtilise Power Query to clean up and prepare data for reportingUtilise pivot tables functions and calculations to generate a set of management and business analysis reports Report and analyze big data using PowerPivotsWho Should Attend?

This course is ideal for:

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.Advanced Excel UsersHow will attendees benefit?

Attendees of the Advanced Excel: Functions, Power Query, and Power Pivots Training Course will gain several key benefits, including:

Creating Advanced Data Management Skills: Create and manage large data sets effectively using Power Query.Complex Functions Usage: Excel works with both its built-in complex functions such as LOOKUPs and INDEX-MATCH as well as with its new dynamic array formulas to improve efficiency and speed productivity.Streamlined Data Handling: Power Pivots is a perfect tool for creating and manipulating complex data analysis seamlessly.Improved Reporting & Dashboards: Highly interactive dashboards and reports that present valuable information for better decision-making.Time-Saving Automation: Save time and effort with the help of automating repetitive activities with advanced Excel features.Better Decision-Making: Visualisation techniques for better communication of results can lead to better informed decisions at the corporate level.

At the end of the course attendees will be able to work on complex datasets, develop valuable reports, and improve their proficiency in Excel to achieve professional success.

Key functions to prepare data for pivot table reporting

• Table format

• Lookup functions

• Text functions

• Naming cells

Advanced techniques in creating and customizing pivot tables

• Number and cell format

• Report layout

• Calculation in value field

• Grouping and ungrouping 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

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

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 Vlookup

• Creating better calculations using the DAX Formulas

• Using DAX to create calculated fields

• Calculate and Related functions