Business Analytics With Excel

About the course

Microsoft Excel is the most commonly used analytics, reporting and strategy software. This course will equip the participants with data analytical skills using Excel’s features. The participants will be taught some statistical concepts on how to get insights from data and take data driven decisions using Excel.

The participant will also acquire skills in Excel pivots and their use to summarize data in flexible ways, enabling quick exploration of data and producing valuable insights from the accumulated data. The course will also include Power BI, which is the latest and the best tool provided by Microsoft for analytics and data visualization.

Target Participants

Business Analytics with Excel course is highly recommended for professionals who are want to build their capacity in the field of analytics. The course is best suited for people who currently use Excel at work and will benefit from improved Excel skills for reporting, presentation and analysis.

Course duration

5 Days

What you will learn

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Understand importance of business analytics in business
• Understand fundamentals of excel analytics functions and conditional formatting
• Analyze with complex datasets using pivot tables and slicers
• Solve analytical problems using tools like scenario manager, solver and goal seek
• Apply statistical tools and concepts like moving average, hypothesis testing, ANOVA and regression to data sets using Excel
• Represent your findings using charts and dashboards
• Use Microsoft Power BI

Course Outline

Introduction to Business Analytics

• What is Business Analytics?
• Analysis vs Analytics
• Types of Analytics
• Areas of Analytics

Conditional Formatting using Excel

• Custom Formatting
• Conditional Formatting

Excel Functions

• Logical Functions
• Look up and Reference Functions
• VLOOKUP Function
• HLOOKUP Function
• MATCH Function
• INDEX and OFFSET Function
• Statistical Function
• SUMIFS Function
• COUNTIFS Function

Analysis Data using PIVOT Tables

• Pivot Table Introduction
• Grouping in Pivot Table Introduction
• Custom Calculation
• Calculated Field and Calculated Item
• Creating a Slicer

Dashboard in Excel

• What is a Dashboard?
• Dashboard Design
• Chart Formatting
• Interactive Dashboard with Form Controls
• Interactive Chart

Business Analytics using Excel

• Histogram
• Solver Addin
• Goal Seek
• Scenario Manager
• Data Table
• Descriptive Statistics

Statistical Analysis using Excel

• Hypothesis Testing
• ANOVA
• Covariance
• Correlation
• Regression

Excel VBA

• MsgBox
• VBA variables
• Events
• Array
• VBA functions
• Application Object

Power BI

• Power Pivot
• Power View
• Power Query
• Power Map

General Notes

·         All our courses can be Tailor-made to participants needs

·         The participant must be conversant with English

·          Presentations are well guided, practical exercises, web-based tutorials, and group work. Our facilitators are experts with more than 10years of experience

·          Upon completion of training, the participant will be issued with a Global King Project Management certificate

·         Training will be done at the Global King Project Management Centers (Nairobi Kenya, Mombasa Kenya, Kigali Rwanda, Dubai ,Lagos  Nigeria and More others).

·         A discount of 20% will be given to more than 4 participants from same organization.

·         Course duration is flexible and the contents can be modified to fit any number of days.      

·         Payment should be done before commencement of the training, to the Global King Project Management account, so as to enable us to prepare better for you.

·         For any inquiry to:  [email protected] or +254 114 830 889

·         Website: www.globalkingprojectmanagement.org

·         Tablet and Laptops are provided to participants on request as an add-on cost to the training fee

·          The course fee for onsite training includes facilitation training materials, 2 coffee breaks, a buffet lunch, and a Certificate of successful completion of Training. Participants will be responsible for their own travel expenses and arrangements, airport transfers, visa application dinners, health/accident insurance, and other personal expenses.