Excel for Business Analytics

This complete Excel course takes you from beginner fundamentals to advanced business analytics and modeling. Learn formulas, lookups, data cleaning, Power Query, PivotTables, dashboards, dynamic arrays, financial modeling, and automation. Work with one realistic retail dataset throughout the course so every skill builds naturally. By the end, you'll be able to turn messy data into reliable analysis, interactive dashboards, and practical business models.

Rutvik Acharya

Principal Data Scientist

Atlassian

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What You'll Learn

Build fast, reliable formulas lookups (VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, XLOOKUP), conditional logic, and dynamic arrays without breaking when data changes

Clean messy real-world data and automate recurring reports with Power Query

Build interactive PivotTable dashboards with slicers, timelines, and presentation-ready charts

Construct full business models with financial functions, sensitivity analysis, and a properly structured Inputs → Calculations → Output design

Who Should Attend

Beginners who want a structured, ground-up path into Excel and business analytics no prior experience required

Business, operations, marketing, or HR professionals who want to move beyond basic spreadsheets into real analysis

Anyone who knows basic Excel but wants to level up to PivotTables, Power Query, dashboards, and financial modeling

Aspiring business or financial analysts building a strong technical foundation in Excel

CERTIFICATION

Certificate of Completion

8 Modules

14 Hour 15 Minutes

45 Lessons

45 Challenges

Language: English

FAQ

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

No. The course starts from the Excel interface and basic formulas in Module 1 and builds up step by step through lookups, data cleaning, PivotTables, charting, and business modeling. No prior experience is required, though comfort with basic computer use is helpful.

Most of the course works in any modern version of Excel. Some lessons in Module 3 and Module 7, such as XLOOKUP and dynamic array functions like UNIQUE, SORT, and FILTER, require Excel 2021, Microsoft 365, or later. Where a feature needs a specific version, the lesson notes this and explains the older alternative.

Yes. Every module uses one consistent dataset from a fictional retailer, Meridian Retail Co., with sales, region, category, and rep data. Using the same dataset throughout means each new skill builds on what you already know instead of starting over with unfamiliar data every lesson.

The course has 8 modules, moving from Excel foundations and core functions through lookups, data cleaning with Power Query, PivotTables and dashboards, charting, advanced formulas, and finally business modeling, automation, and collaboration. Each module builds directly on the skills from the ones before it.

Yes. Every lesson is framed around a specific business question rather than an isolated feature, and later modules focus specifically on structuring trustworthy models, auditing formulas, and building dashboards that communicate findings clearly. The goal is analytical judgment, not just memorized syntax.

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