Make the most of this lockdown and work-from-home situation, even get your HR to see this as a way of achieving their staff learning and development goals with reduced budget and within the lockdown restriction.

Register at https://class.urbizedge.com/p/business-data-analysis-with-microsoft-excel and other courses at https://class.urbizedge.com 

Microsoft Excel is the world's most used and versatile business analysis, reporting and strategy software. Having a deep practical knowledge of Excel will turn you almost superhuman at work and increase your productivity. You will be seen as a very efficient, highly competent and indispensable partner in the organization's progress. And, hopefully, it will lead to a much greater career role and opportunity for you.

This training is going to focus on making you highly proficient in the use of Excel for business data analysis, dashboard creation and reporting the professional way. And most of this would be achieved through lots of samples that will be similar to what you'll need at work.

It covers the following topics:

  1. Data Manipulation in Excel
    • How Excel handles different data types
    • Data consistency, starting with the end in view
    • Building Datasheets that can easily scale
    • Sorting
      • Cascaded sorting
      • Sorting across rows (left to right sorting, not the usual up to down sorting)
      • Sorting and Conditional Formatting to identify trends
    • Filtering
    • Data cleaning
      • Removing duplicates
      • Text-to-column
      • Grouping
      • Data Validation
      • Conditional Formatting
    • Data formatting
      • Using Tables (and when to convert to tables)
      • Formatting for printing
      • Formatting for email
      • Data Review and formatting for 3rd party use
    • Named Ranges
  2. Charts
    • Chart types
      • Line chart and when to use it
      • Column chart and when to use it
      • Bar chart and when to use it
      • Pie chart and it’s dangers
    • Combining charts; when and how.
    • Dynamic Charts,
      using filter.
    • Best practices when making charts
  3. Pivot Table, Pivot Chart and PowerPivot
    • Pivot Table
      • Default Pivot Table
      • Tabular Pivot Table
      • Pivot Table Filtering
      • Making a very dynamic regular table from Pivot Table
      • Calculations and Formula use with Pivot Table
      • Advanced Pivot Table tricks
    • Pivot Chart
      • Pivot Chart and its limitations
      • Dynamic Pivot Charts
    • PowerPivot (for Excel 2010, 2013 and 2016 only)
    • Power BI for dynamic dashboard and analysing millions of rows of data
  4. Business Data Analysis
    • Linking sheets
    • Duplicating sheets (better than copy and paste)
    • Inserting sheets, labeling and coloring the professional way
    • Freezing Panes and splitting windows
    • Conditional formatting
      • To identify patterns
      • Using formulae
      • To make extremely intelligent reports
    • Lookup functions
      • VLOOKUP
      • HLOOKUP
      • Looking up the last data or pattern in a particular row or column
      • Overcoming the limitations of VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP using index and match functions
    • Power Functions
      • IF, IFERROR, AND, OR,ISBLANK, and others in the same family
      • TEXT manipulative functions to make a completely automated Dashboard
      • COUNTIFS, SUMIFS, AVERAGEIFS and others, to make dynamic summary tables
      • MATCH and INDEX to do the impossible
    • Other Functions
      • Math Functions
      • Text Functions
      • Logical
      • Others
    • Formula Auditing
    • Goal Seek, Scenario Manager and Solver
    • Excel Web Query
    • Most useful Excel keyboard shortcuts
  5. Executive Dashboards and Reporting
    • Best Practices
    • Executive Dashboards
      • Executive Dashboards
      • Dynamic Reports
      • Determining the KPIs and tracking them
      • Strategic Insights & Analysis
    • Data Visualization
    • Having the audience/recipient in mind
    • E-mails and Excel reports
  6. Excel to PowerPoint and Word
    • Linking PowerPoint/Word Charts to Excel
    • Embedding Excel sheets in PowerPoint/Word
    • Making a Powerful PowerPoint Presentation
  7. Excel VBA
    • Recording Excel macros
    • Introduction to editing Macro codes

The course is run by UrBizEdge Limited 

UrBizEdge is a registered Microsoft Excel consultingfinancial modellingbusiness intelligencedata analysis and enterprise solutions firm. We specialise in helping companies and high value professionals be on top of their business data. We focus exclusively on the world’s most used and most flexible business intelligence tools. We have a 5x Microsoft Excel Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and we are an approved training provider for the AFM (Advanced Financial Modeler) certification by the global body, Financial Modeling Institute. Our team are the developers of the only Nigerian financial markets analysis tool on Microsoft office store, the developers of Nigerian stocks analysis dashboard and the brains behind the Nigeria Market Data platform

Access our online comprehensive training classes at specially discounted price with lifetime access, downloadable classes and future updates :
  1. Financial Modelling, Financial Planning and DCF Valuation
  2. Power BI and Dashboards for the Busy Professional
  3. Business Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel
You can always pick between two options for any of our online courses:
  1. Specially Discounted with lifetime access, downloadable classes and future updates
  2. Specially Discounted with lifetime access, downloadable classes and future updates + 4 hours Live Session with instructor


Make the most of this lockdown and work-from-home situation, even get your HR to see this as a way of achieving their staff learning and development goals with reduced budget and within the lockdown restriction.

Register at https://class.urbizedge.com/p/power-bi-and-dashboards-for-the-busy-professional and other courses at https://class.urbizedge.com 


This course is a fully hands-on one to take you from just having an idea of what Power BI does to being able to create insights-rich and interactive reports/dashboards in Power BI.

We cover the following aspects:
Get Data (bringing in your data for analysis)
  • Data Sources in Power BI Desktop
  • Connect to web data and web apps
  • Import Excel Workbooks
  • Connect to enterprise Database
  •  
Data Transformation, Power Query and DAX
  • Get Data
  • Model section of the report builder (Power BI Desktop)
  • Creating Relationships
  • Cardinality
  • Direction
  • Data section of the report builder (Power BI Desktop)
  • Data Type
  • Data Format
  • DAX
  • New Column
  • New Measure
  • New Table
  • Must know DAX formulas
  • DAX formula reference guide
  • Row level Security to control report access using roles (dept, function, branch, cost centre etc)
  • Report section of the report builder (Power BI Desktop)
  • Report creation
  • Native Visuals
  • Custom Visuals
  • Menu Tools for professional looking reports
  • Edit Interactions
  • Report creation from scratch
  • Power Query
  • Transforming and Combining Data before loading to Model
  • Common Power Query tasks
  • Unpivot
  • Pivot
  • Split Column
  • Append Tables
  • Merge Tables
  • Remove rows
  • Use first row as header
  • Merge Columns
  • Add Columns
  • Group By
  • Extract
  • Fill
  • Transpose
  • M Code reference resource

Report Publishing, Dashboards and Power BI Service
  • Understanding the concept of Workspaces
  • Publishing report (from Power BI desktop to Power BI service for consumption)
  • Controlling access to aspects of the report by role (region, department or level)
  • Published Report options
  • Exporting to PowerPoint or PDF
  • Embedding in SharePoint
  • Embedding in a website
  • Making it available via a web link
  • Sharing with specific users
  • Editing the report – adding new visuals, changing visuals used and creating new report pages
  • Adding comments and tagging users
  • Scheduling the report to send our daily or weekly to specific people
  • Creating a Dashboard
  • Can be created from one or more reports to show management useful analysis
  • Can incorporate data and visuals from other people’s dashboards or reports shared with you
  • Set Alerts to be instantly notified when a KPI is reached or an SLA is breached
  • Add actionable comments
  • Schedule the dashboard to be sent out daily or weekly to specific people
  • Share the dashboard with final users
  • Best practices
  • Setting automatic/scheduled refresh so new data is ingested automatically
  • Data Gateway configuration
  • The type of data sources that require data gateway

AI in Power BI and Settings
  • Q&A for autogenerating charts and tables in answer to questions
  • Organization wide settings
  • Account wide settings
  • Workspace settings
  • Dashboard settings
  • Report settings
  • Datasets settings

This is the course to solidify your Power BI proficiency and is run by UrBizEdge Limited 

UrBizEdge is a registered Microsoft Excel consultingfinancial modellingbusiness intelligencedata analysis and enterprise solutions firm. We specialise in helping companies and high value professionals be on top of their business data. We focus exclusively on the world’s most used and most flexible business intelligence tools. We have a 5x Microsoft Excel Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and we are an approved training provider for the AFM (Advanced Financial Modeler) certification by the global body, Financial Modeling Institute. Our team are the developers of the only Nigerian financial markets analysis tool on Microsoft office store, the developers of Nigerian stocks analysis dashboard and the brains behind the Nigeria Market Data platform

Access our online comprehensive training classes at specially discounted price with lifetime access, downloadable classes and future updates :
  1. Financial Modelling, Financial Planning and DCF Valuation
  2. Power BI and Dashboards for the Busy Professional
  3. Business Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel
You can always pick between two options for any of our online courses:
  1. Specially Discounted with lifetime access, downloadable classes and future updates
  2. Specially Discounted with lifetime access, downloadable classes and future updates + 4 hours Live Session with instructor

Have you ever been faced with a situation where duplicates keep showing up in your compiled data and you are thinking of a way of restricting your users from inputting duplicates entries in your records thereby saving yourself the time of cleaning them up manually?

We will configure a custom data validation rule to allow only unique entries using the classic COUNTIF formula to identify duplicates.
Let’s say we are in charge of helping the Federal Government compile the list of Nigerians to get the Covid-19 cash support. We definitely do not want duplicate BVNs and duplicate Account Numbers.


The formula we put in is =COUNTIF($C$3:$C$32,C3)<=1
The custom validation criteria allows us to use logical formula to specify what is accepted and what should be rejected. Any entry on which the formula evaluates to TRUE is accepted and when it evaluates to FALSE, that entry is rejected.


We also put a nice Error Alert



If anyone tries to smuggle himself or a family member in twice, the sheet rejects his duplicate entry


And that’s how Excel helps us with a nationally important issue.

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Make the most of this lockdown and work-from-home situation, even get your HR to see this as a way of achieving their staff learning and development goals with reduced budget and within the lockdown restriction.

Register at https://class.urbizedge.com/p/financial-modelling-financial-planning-and-dcf-valuation and other courses at https://class.urbizedge.com 


This is a fully hands-on course that will take you from a blank Excel file to creating a robust, dynamic and fully automated financial model that can be used for a startup or an existing company.

It covers the following sections:
  • Financial Model template creation and Excel tips
  • Fleshing out a dedicated Model Input sheet to aggregate all the client's plans
  • Creating scenarios -- Optimistic, Conservative, Pessimistic -- that will flow dynamically into the entire financial statements forecast
  • Creating the Revenue Schedule
  • Creating the Cost of Sales Schedule
  • Creating the Working Capital Schedule
  • Creating the Depreciation Schedule
  • Creating the Debt Schedule
  • Creating the Equity Schedule
  • Creating the Tax Schedule
  • Creating the Income Statement dynamically
  • Creating the Balance Sheet dynamically
  • Creating the Cashflow Sheet dynamically
  • Carrying out the DCF Valuation
  • Computing the Financial Ratios

The course is run by UrBizEdge Limited 

UrBizEdge is a registered Microsoft Excel consultingfinancial modellingbusiness intelligencedata analysis and enterprise solutions firm. We specialise in helping companies and high value professionals be on top of their business data. We focus exclusively on the world’s most used and most flexible business intelligence tools. We have a 5x Microsoft Excel Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and we are an approved training provider for the AFM (Advanced Financial Modeler) certification by the global body, Financial Modeling Institute. Our team are the developers of the only Nigerian financial markets analysis tool on Microsoft office store, the developers of Nigerian stocks analysis dashboard and the brains behind the Nigeria Market Data platform

Access our online comprehensive training classes at specially discounted price with lifetime access, downloadable classes and future updates :
  1. Financial Modelling, Financial Planning and DCF Valuation
  2. Power BI and Dashboards for the Busy Professional
  3. Business Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel
You can always pick between two options for any of our online courses:
  1. Specially Discounted with lifetime access, downloadable classes and future updates
  2. Specially Discounted with lifetime access, downloadable classes and future updates + 4 hours Live Session with instructor


You can register for free between today and Thursday 9th April 2020 for our newly published Financial Modelling, Financial Planning and DCF Valuation online course by using the following coupon link: https://www.udemy.com/course/financial-modelling-financial-planning-and-dcf-valuation/?couponCode=SPECIALOFFER


This is a fully hands-on course that will take you from a blank Excel file to creating a robust, dynamic and fully automated financial model that can be used for a startup or an existing company. It also prepares you for the Advanced Financial Modeler (AFM) certification.
It covers the following sections:
  • Financial Model template creation and Excel tips
  • Fleshing out a dedicated Model Input sheet to aggregate all the client's plans
  • Creating scenarios -- Optimistic, Conservative, Pessimistic -- that will flow dynamically into the entire financial statements forecast
  • Creating the Revenue Schedule
  • Creating the Cost of Sales Schedule
  • Creating the Working Capital Schedule
  • Creating the Depreciation Schedule
  • Creating the Debt Schedule
  • Creating the Equity Schedule
  • Creating the Tax Schedule
  • Creating the Income Statement dynamically
  • Creating the Balance Sheet dynamically
  • Creating the Cashflow Sheet dynamically
  • Carrying out the DCF Valuation
  • Computing the Financial Ratios


Below are snapshots of the model structure you will be creating from scratch (from a blank Excel file).