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About the Excel for Business Course:

Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful and versatile tools used across industries for data management, analysis, reporting, and decision-making. This course has been carefully designed to help learners develop skills and techniques in Excel through practical, hands-on training.

This online Excel for Business course builds practical spreadsheet skills from formatting and formulas to PivotTables, financial functions, what-if analysis and macros.

The program covers basic operations like formatting, formulas, and data handling, to advanced functionalities such as PivotTables and macros. Learners will learn essential as well as advanced features of Excel to manage, analyse, and present data efficiently. This program prioritizes experiential learning and authentic, real-world problem-solving to enhance educational outcomes.

Learners will gain not only the technical know-how but also the practical application skills that employers value, making this course an ideal choice for both beginners and professionals who want to enhance their Excel expertise.

 

Who should take this Excel for Business Course?

The Excel for Business course is suitable for students, analysts, entrepreneurs and working professionals who use spreadsheets for reporting, analysis and decision-making.

  • Students and graduates seeking to strengthen Excel skills.
  • Working professionals whose roles involve frequent data handling
  • Analysts, entrepreneurs, economists, and data professionals seeking to deepen their expertise in Excel.
  • Anyone looking to improve reporting, productivity, and data-driven decision-making.

Excel for Business Course Benefits

Learners can clean data, build formulas, create lookups and PivotTables, perform financial analysis and automate repetitive tasks with Excel macros.

 

Excel for Business Course Curriculum

The curriculum covers Excel formatting, data validation, IF and lookup functions, PivotTables, financial formulas, scenario analysis, Goal Seek and macro recording.

Module 1:

  • Data tables in Excel
  • Basic cell formatting
  • Data filtering and sorting
  • Cell grouping
  • Conditional formatting
  • Freezing panes

Case study
 

Module 2:

  • Date formatting
  • Flash fill
  • Removing duplicates
  • Data validation and dropdowns 
  • Cell merge, custom formatting introduction, wrap text
  • Paste special and text to column

Case Study

 

Module 3:

  • IF function, nested if, IFS, IF AND OR
  • Cell referencing basic, absolute, mixed
  • Arithmetical functions: IFERROR, SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, AVERAGEIF, MIN, COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTIF, SUMIF, SUMPRODUCT

Case study


Module 4:

  • Lookup functions: VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, XLOOKUP
  • Index and Match functions
  • Tracing precedents and dependents, circular referencing error
  • Pivot tables, slicers, pivot charts, value field settings

Case study
 

Module 5:

  • Using Index and Match function together to look up values
  • Creating dynamic dropdowns for different scenarios
  • Offset function basics, using with arithmetic functions
  • Text function, ampersand (&) function

Case study
 

Module 6:

  • Using custom formatting
  • Rounding off functions, MOD function, ABS function
  • Find and replace, MONTH, YEAR, NETWORKDAYS, HYPERLINK, TRIM, RANDOM function

Case study
 

Module 7:

  • CAGR computation
  • PMT function
  • TVM formulas: NPV, IRR, PV, FV functions
  • What-if analysis, data table, single/double variable

Case study


Module 8:

  • Goal Seek function
  • Scenario analysis
  • Named ranges
  • Macros – absolute, relative referencing
  • Creation of construction flags, max and min functions
  • Worksheet protection

Case study

   

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