Never before has data been so readily and freely available. From our daily commute, to our morning coffee, to our daily purchases to our business activities and personal achievements data is generated. The availability of such rich data set afford fabulous opportunities to solve problems and lead to improvements in all aspects of our lives, especially in commercial activities. Such problem solving traditionally involved sophisticated quantitative skills. However, on every desktop computer through the world lies an underutilised tool, that tool is Excel. In this Coventry Academy training course you will learn to how to use Excel to query data, test hypothesis and solve sophisticated problems. By the end of the training course you will be conversant with 50+ Excel functions, a huge variety of charts and analysis tools.
What are the goals?
By attending this Coventry Academy training course, you should achieve these goals:
Be Familiar with 50+ Excel Functions
Recognise the Right Chart for the Right Task
How to Manipulate Both Textual and Numerical Data
Be able to Analyse Data Using Appropriate Tools
Analyse Relationships Amongst Variables and Generate Forecasts
Who is this training course for?
This Coventry Academy training course is suitable for middle and senior managers who have responsibility for divisional or organizational success, as well as consultants and professionals who support them. For example:
Anyone with Line Manager Responsibility
HR Professionals
Oil and Gas, Energy and Telecom Team Engineers
Senior Finance Professionals
Board Level Executives and Non-Executives
Course Outline
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
The certificate
Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course