Enhance Your Professional toolkit With Our Excel Skills for Business Specialization Course
Delve into practical skills that today's employers crave, from data analysis to advanced spreadsheet functionalities. With Excel proficiency, you're not just job-ready — you're ahead. Join us and unlock your potential.
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INTRODUCING ONLINE COURSE
Excel Skills for Business Specialization
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Be comfortable navigating the Excel user interface, entering, manipulating and formatting data.
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Use formulas and functions to perform calculations on data. Automate choices and data lookups using functions.
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Analyze data and present the results in a user-friendly way. Create charts and tables that effectively summarize raw data.
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Create easy-to-use spreadsheets. Validate data, find and correct errors. Create navigation aids for large workbooks.
Practical Applications of Advanced Excel Skills
- Routine Task Optimization: Automate reports, swiftly format data.
- Financial Analysis: Utilize formulas and charts for understanding financial trends and decision-making.
- Marketing Analysis: Analyze sales data, visualize results of advertising campaigns.
- Project Management: Track progress, resources, and timelines using spreadsheets.
- Human Resources: Analyze employee data, calculate compensations and other HR-related expenses.
- Logistics and Inventory Management: Forecast needs, track stock levels and shipments.
- Customer Relationship Management: Visualize customer data, analyze behavior and preferences.
- Strategic Planning: Use data modeling for company's future growth predictions.
- Quality Management: Track quality indicators, analyze deviations, and identify problem causes.
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Scientific Research: Process and analyze data, create research reports.
COURSE STRUCTURE
The best way to learn Excel is to use Excel. In this course, learners will solve a broad range of business problems as they apply the Excel skills and techniques they learn along the way. This course uses downloadable Excel workbooks and full data sets with applied examples and practical challenge exercises.
Work through each new challenge step-by-step and in no time you will surprise yourself by how far you have come.
MODULE 1
Excel Skills for Busines: Essential
- Introduction to the Excel interface, basic computations, and formulas.
- Professional spreadsheet formatting and data visualization through charts and graphs.
- Hands-on experience in solving real business problems.
- The significance of Excel in today's work environment and its role in your career.
MODULE 2
Excel Skills for Business: Intermediate I
Working through challenges which are all too common ones that we encounter everyday, will help you to more easily relate to the skills and techniques learned in each week and apply them to familiar and new contexts.
- Deepening skills for effective daily Excel use.
- Mastering automation and generating reports from extensive datasets.
- Learning through hands-on experience, tackling real business challenges from the fictitious compan.
MODULE 3
Excel Skills for Business: Intermediate II
- Delving into some of Excel's most potent tools.
- Techniques for error-checking and rectification, creating automation, and applying advanced formulas.
- Making informed business decisions with enhanced Excel knowledge.
MODULE 4
Excel Skills for Business: Advanced
- Preparing to become a seasoned Excel user.
- Studying intricate formulas, prepping data for analysis, and working with financial functions.
- Spreadsheet design and documentation.
- Crafting professional dashboards in Excel.
NICE TO MEET YOU
LEARN FROM EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS
Dr. Prashan S. M. Karunaratne, Senior Lecturer - Teaching & Leadership (SFHEA), Macquarie University.
Dr Prashan Karunaratne is an inspirational and innovative lecturer of commerce, economics, and business analytics – and is well-known for his catchphrase, #EveryoneSayWow. He is also a curriculum developer and an instructor of the hugely popular Excel Skills for Business course that received the Coursera Outstanding Educator Award for Student Transformation in 2018. Prashan has won several other teaching awards, including a 2019 Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning award at the Australian Awards for University Teaching: "For excellence in engaging, equipping and empowering students and lecturers to achieve transformative and equitable outcomes in Economics and Excel – in classrooms, boardrooms and beyond". In 2020, he won the inaugural Australian Business Deans Council Award for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Prashan holds a PhD in Management – Learning & Teaching (Macquarie University), a Master of Business Administration – Banking (University of London), a Master of Commerce – Actuarial Studies (University of New South Wales), and a Bachelor of Economics – Honours (Macquarie University).
Professor Yvonne Breyer, Deputy Dean of Education and Employability, Macquarie University.
Professor Yvonne Breyer is an award-winning academic with expertise in online learning, student engagement, and digital transformation in the higher education sector. Yvonne has led several strategic initiatives with national and international reach. On the back of exceptional learner feedback and global impact, her team received the Coursera Outstanding Educator Award for Student Transformation in 2018. More recently, Yvonne led the MQBS Design and Experience team to deliver the innovative and transformative Global MBA (ranked #1 Online MBA in Australia). Currently, Yvonne is the Director, Learning & Teaching and Head of Learning Futures at the Macquarie University Business School. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics (Macquarie University), a Master of Arts (University of Essen, Germany) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, Leadership and Management (Macquarie University).
Nicky Bull, Lecturer and Lead Content Designer, Macquarie University.
Nicky Bull is a dynamic corporate trainer and consultant. She has 15 years of commercial experience as a computer programmer and analyst, and over ten years designing and delivering a range of educational programs. She lectures accounting students at Macquarie University and was the lead content designer for the hugely popular Excel Skills for Business course that received the Coursera Outstanding Educator Award for Student Transformation in 2018. Nicky is passionate about learning and enabling people to use technology confidently and effectively in their workplace. She holds a BSc Hons in Computer Science (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), a BA in English Literature (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (University of Hertfordshire, U.K.).
"The course has been expertly designed, and the engaging practice tests have made it truly enjoyable. It's a bit disappointing that the course has come to an end. A heartfelt "thank you!" goes out to the incredible individuals who created this course for us. Best regards"
- Ildar G, April 2023
"I can't say enough positive about this course. I wish I had this 15 years ago! I learned so much in this class that I am stunned since I've been using Excel for many years and thought I had a good handle on it! Really, really helpful class that also teaches shortcuts and best practices that have already translated to time saved for me at work!!"
- James D, February 2023
"I loved this course and how interactive it was, I learned a lot from the beginning of the study, from essentials, all the way to the advanced level. overall it was a great course through and through, I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in excel, whether it's learning more about the software and how it operates, or if you're a beginner who knows little to nothing about it."
- Exequiel G, February 2023
Course
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Excel Skills for Business Specialization
Learning format
The courses are offered in a flexible, online environment and conclude with a certificate of completion that speaks to your competencies in a contemporary and evolving marketplace.
The total volume of training: 106 hours (142 academic hours) of independent work (including work on homework).
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