The Comprehensive Excel Masterclass is an advanced course designed to empower students with the skills and knowledge needed to maximize the potential of Microsoft Excel in a business environment. This course goes beyond the basics and explores advanced functions, and features that will enable students to perform complex calculations, retrieve and manipulate data from multiple sources, and gain valuable insights from data. The course combines theoretical concepts with practical exercises and examples to reinforce learning.
A Comprehensive Excel Masterclass
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There are 5 modules in this course
Welcome to Mastering Excel Essentials to Enhance Business Value! This module introduces Pivot Tables and Power Query as powerful tools for organizing, analyzing, and transforming data. You will learn to build dynamic reports, apply filters, group data, and create interactive dashboards, while also gaining an introduction to preparing and cleaning data with Power Query.
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25 videos20 readings8 assignments1 discussion prompt
Welcome to Module 2! This module explores the time value of money and its role in financial decision-making. You will use Excel’s financial functions to model investments, calculate loan payments, build amortization schedules, and analyze the impact of interest rates and repayment strategies on long-term outcomes.
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25 videos16 readings9 assignments
Welcome to Module 3! This module focuses on building models to support data-driven decision-making and evaluating business projects. You will apply Excel tools like Goal Seek, data tables, and scenario analysis, while also mastering capital budgeting techniques such as NPV, IRR, and incremental analysis to select the most profitable investments.
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26 videos13 readings8 assignments
Welcome to Module 4! In today's data-driven world, the ability to create dashboards that are both interactive and informative is absolutely crucial for effective data analysis and decision-making. In this module, we'll dive deep into the art of dashboard design, focusing on the practical application of our lessons. You'll learn how to leverage Excel's Form Controls to build dynamic and user-friendly dashboards without the need for VBA programming. But this module is about much more than Excel functions. It's about mastering the design principles that make dashboards meaningful and effective. You'll discover how to craft displays of quantitative data that facilitate managerial decision-making. We'll explore essential theories, concepts, and methodologies to visualize and analyze real-world data. From mastering data retrieval techniques with INDEX to exploring ways to create dynamic charts, this module is designed to transform you into an adept dashboard designer, capable of synthesizing and visualizing complex data in an easily digestible format.
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38 videos17 readings5 assignments
This module contains the summative course assessment that has been designed to evaluate your understanding of the course material and assess your ability to apply the knowledge you have acquired throughout the course. Be sure to review the course material thoroughly before taking the assessment.
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This course is part of the following degree program(s) offered by Illinois Tech. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.¹
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Reviewed on Jun 30, 2024
Great experience and I learned more than I projected.
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Reviewed on Aug 14, 2024
It was very comprehensive course on critical features and functions in Excel that are required for everyday use and data analysis and visualization.
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Great learning experience from a wonderful professor
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