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 PowerPivots, another powerful tool in Excel which will put your pivot tables on turbo. While pivot tables have some limitations, PowerPivots 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.

This is the second course after the "Next Generation Excel: Advanced Business and Financial Reporting" course.

This is a hands-on course with practical applications and use of Microsoft Excel 2016 throughout the five days. All examples, exercises and cases are practiced in Excel.

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 PowerPivots

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.

• Power Query
• Practicing pivot tables
• Working with PowerPivot
• Reporting
• Analyzing business data
• Designing basic macros

This is a hands-on training course using laptops, which will be made available by Arab for the duration of the training.