Learning Outcomes

Introduction to Business Analysis

Merging and Looking Up Data

Making Better Decisions with IF

Preparing Data for Analysis

Lesson Summary

Microsoft Excel remains one of the best tools for data analysis. This course will focus on the specific functions, and formulas such as VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX MATCH, and XLOOKUP that will help to conduct business or data analysis.

Final Assessment

Master Excel’s specific functions and formulae to conduct business analysis with this free online spreadsheet course.

Excel for Business Analysts

This free online spreadsheet course covers some of the most popular and useful functions used in Excel to analyze business and finance. We teach you how to use Excel functions such as ‘vlookup’, ‘hlookup’, ‘xlookup’, ‘index’ and ‘if’ to help you make better business decisions. This course is ideal for those who want to gain practical skills in Microsoft Excel to make business reports more compelling  and meaningful.

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