Advanced Excel Techniques || Wacre Skill Centre

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Advanced Excel Techniques

By Aoife Brennan
03/Jul/2024
0 Students

Course Description

Go beyond basic formulas and unlock Excel’s full power as a business intelligence and productivity tool. This hands-on course teaches professionals how to analyze large datasets, automate repetitive tasks, build dynamic dashboards, and create financial models using advanced Excel functions

Why Learn Advanced Excel?
Despite the rise of AI and new tools, Excel remains the #1 data tool in finance, operations, marketing, and management. Professionals who can clean, model, and visualize data in Excel make faster decisions, reduce errors, and stand out in any role.

What You’ll Learn:

Clean and transform messy data with Power Query (import, merge, unpivot, automate refresh)
Analyze trends and summarize data using PivotTables, PivotCharts, and slicers
Write powerful formulas: XLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH, SUMIFS, TEXTJOIN, and dynamic arrays
Build interactive dashboards with form controls, conditional formatting, and data validation
Model scenarios with Goal Seek, Data Tables, and Solver
Automate workflows with macros and VBA basics (record, edit, run safely)
Use named ranges and structured references for cleaner, maintainable spreadsheets
Integrate Excel with Power BI and cloud services for scalable reporting

Why Choose This Course?
Taught by financial analysts and data specialists, this course uses real-world business cases sales reports, budget trackers, inventory logs, and KPI dashboards. You’ll rebuild inefficient spreadsheets into professional-grade tools. Includes downloadable templates, shortcut cheat sheets, and a “Formula Decision Tree” to choose the right function every time.

Course Curriculum

Aoife Brennan

Senior Lecturer in Technology & Innovation | Bridging Code, Design, and Commerce

Based in Dublin, Ireland, Dr. Aoife Brennan is a dynamic educator and technologist known for her rigorous yet inspiring approach to teaching the disciplines that power the modern digital economy. With a background spanning computer science, interaction design, and financial technology