Course description
Excel Skills for Business Specialization
This specialization is intended for anyone who seeks to develop one of the most critical and fundamental digital skills today. Spreadsheet software remains one of the most ubiquitous pieces of software used in workplaces across the world. Learning to confidently operate this software means adding a highly valuable asset to your employability portfolio. In the United States alone, millions of job advertisements requiring Excel skills are posted every day. Research by Burning Glass Technologies and Capital One shows that digital skills lead to higher income and better employment opportunities. At a time when digital skills jobs are growing much faster than non-digital jobs, completing this specialization will position you way ahead of others.
In this Specialization, learners develop advanced Excel Skills for Business. Upon completing the four courses in this Specialization, learners can design sophisticated spreadsheets, including professional dashboards, and perform complex calculations using advanced Excel features and techniques. Learners have acquired the skills to manage large datasets efficiently, extract meaningful information from datasets, present data and extract information effectively. In addition, learners have mastered the skills needed to validate data and prevent errors in spreadsheets, create automation, apply advanced formulas and conditional logic to help make decisions and create spreadsheets that help forecast and model data.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This Specialization is appropriate for anyone who is interested in learning about Microsoft Excel.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What You Will Learn
- Be comfortable navigating the Excel user interface, entering, manipulating and formatting data.
- Use formulas and functions to perform calculations on data. Automate choices and data lookups using functions.
- Analyze data and present the results in a user-friendly way. Create charts and tables that effectively summarize raw data.
- Create easy-to-use spreadsheets. Validate data, find and correct errors. Create navigation aids for large workbooks.
Skills You Will Gain
- Data Validation
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Excel Macro
- Pivot Table
- Graphs
- Spreadsheet
- Chart
- Concatenation
- Consolization
- Pivot Chart
- Lookup Table
- Microsoft Excel Vba
Training Course Content
- Excel Skills for Business: Essentials
- Excel Skills for Business: Intermediate I
- Excel Skills for Business: Intermediate II
- Excel Skills for Business: Advanced
Course delivery details
This course is offered through Macquarie University, a partner institute of Coursera.
Suggested pace of 4 hours/week
Expenses
Please visit the Institute website for more information about tuition fees