Excel for Business Analysts
This online spreadsheet course covers some of the most popular and useful functions used in Excel to analyze business and finance. This is an excellent course for those who want to gain practical skills in Microsoft Excel.
On Course Completion
Once you have successfully completed this certificate course you will receive:
a certificate from Alison.com and
you will be eligible for the ISMF certification on the payment of a fee.
Course Syllabus
The course consists of two Modules:
Module One
Introduction to Excel for Business Analysts
Learning Outcomes
Introduction to Business Analysis
Print and View Options in Excel
Merging and Looking up Data
Making better decisions with IF
Preparing Data for Analysis
Lesson Summary
Module Two
Course Assessment
Final Assessment
In this course, you will learn how to:
Use ‘vlookup’ and ‘hlookup’ business analysis
Logically analyze business data with the ‘if’, ‘ifs’, ‘iferror’, ‘sumif’ and ‘countif’ functions
Outline the difference between concatenating and standardizing data
Describe how to split data using text functions like ‘search’, ‘left’, ‘right’ and ‘mid’
Implement ‘index match’ and ‘xlookup’ in Excel
Explain how to make better business decisions with ‘if’ functions
Demonstrate the difference between the ‘countif’, ‘sumif’ and ‘countif’ functions in Excel