Excel for finance
Within the financial services industry, Microsoft Excel is an essential daily tool for most people. Increasing your proficiency will boost your career prospects and increase your productivity. This course is designed to help you develop the essential skills you need to become an expert in Excel. The course begins at a very basic level and slowly moves to quite an advanced level so ultimately no prior knowledge of Excel is required. The only prerequisite for this course is to have access to Excel so that you can not only open some of the resources available but also so that you can practice what you will learn.
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By the end of this course, you will be able to
- Master tips, tricks and shortcuts to enhance your productivity in Excel
- Use a range of formatting techniques to make your data more presentable
- Extract, analyse and interpret key data using filters, pivot charts, data tools and a range of built in functions
- Learn the basics of Excel VBA to begin to automate workbooks
Who Should Take This Course?
This course is ideal for anyone who wants to learn Excel from basics to advanced level. Excel is a key tool for finance professionals and this course helps professionals learn to extract, analyse and interpret financial data.
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