Mastering Excel 2013 Pivot Tables/PowerPivot

Why Attend

Working with “big data” has always been a challenging task. In the information age the availability of data is not the question but rather how this data can be sliced and diced to generate meaningful reports and analysis and take a different view of the data to assist management in making proper and informed decisions. Luckily, Excel 2013 came and gave us the ability to work with millions of rows of data using Pivot Tables and PowerPivots. This course will enable you to upgrade your skills in pivot tables as well as understand and apply the add-in feature of PowerPivots for better reporting.

Course Methodology

This is a hands-on course with practical applications and use of MS Excel 2013 throughout the five days. All examples, exercises and cases are practiced in Excel.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Apply the key Excel functions to prepare data for analysis using Pivot tables
• Create and customize pivot tables to reconcile and analyze accounts efficiently
• Utilize pivot tables functions and calculations to generate a set of management and business analysis reports
• Run macros to speed up their work and utilize other advanced techniques in data analysis and reporting
• Report and analyze big data tables using the Excel 2013 feature of Data Model and PowerPivot

Target Audience

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 and work with big data analysis.

Target Competencies

• Utilizing Excel 2013
• Practicing pivot tables
• Working with PowerPivot
• Reporting
• Analyzing business data
• Designing basic macros

Note

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