Course Code: IT 208
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MS Excel Advanced
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Excel is a tool that enables most professionals to be more productive and efficient in managing data. While there are other database systems like Oracle (ORCL) and SAP (SAP), exporting data into Excel allows users to discover trends, summarize expenses and hours by pay period, month, or year, and better understand how the workforce is spread out by function or pay level. It allows professionals to create a spreadsheet full of employee data and analyze financial implications for cost planning.

This training Program provides participants with techniques, applications and basic knowledge on using MS Excel for reporting and preparing documents within their work scope.

Course Objectives
At the end of the training course, participants will be able to

  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of MS Excel techniques and applications used in reporting particularly.
  • Create special flash and management reports by linking-up Excel with Access, web, text, SQL, and other databases.
  • Use pivot tables and pivot charts to prepare professional reports, analysis and reconciliation most efficiently.
  • Repeat tasks and generate reports efficiently by recording, running and editing macros.
  • Acquire numerous tips and tricks that will improve working efficiency.

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DATA MASSAGING: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

  • Consolidating data from separate files and sheets
  • Advanced data validation using lists, dates and custom validation
  • Cell management tools: left, right, mid, concatenate, value
  • Naming, editing, and managing cells and ranges
  • Subtotal, Sumif, Sumproduct, Count, Countif, Countifs
  • Looking-up data, texts, and values using Vlookup
  • The incredible table-tools technique
  • Slicing dates into day names, weeks, week numbers, month names, years and quarters
  • Text to columns and dynamic trimming using Trim, Len
  • Managing texts and numbers using replace, find, and substitute
  • Text change functions

 

REPORTING, ANALYSIS AND RECONCILIATIONS USING PIVOT TABLES

  • The 20 must learn rules
  • Creating and copying pivot tables
  • Number formatting techniques
  • Designing report layout
  • Sorting in ascending, descending and more sort options
  • Filtering labels and values
  • Expanding and collapsing reports
  • Summarize data by sum, average, minimum, maximum, count
  • Show values as % of total and % of
  • Pivot table options
  • Drill down option
  • Showing report filter pages
  • Inserting formulas
  • Date analysis
  • Creating pivot charts
  • Dynamic chart labeling
  • Mastering the slicer
  • Linking pivot tables and pivot graphs with PowerPoint
  • Conditional formatting with pivot tables
  • Designing reports using GetPivotData 

CELLS AND NAME RANGES

  • Creating name ranges for data
  • Using name ranges for values calculations
  • Creating names from selection command
  • Creating a 3-D formula
  • Updating name ranges
  • Editing name ranges

 

DATA FORMATTING

  • Formatting numbers
  • Formatting dates
  • Conditional formatting
  • Avoiding duplication of employee records
  • Data bars for performance appraisal
  • Icon sets for job level
  • Color scale for employees’ grades
  • Greater or less than for earnings
  • Based on a formula
  • Setting warnings on residency expiry date

 

AUTOMATE REPETITIVE TASKS

  • Creating macros for reports
  • Using macros for monthly reports
  • Saving macros in personnel macros workbook
  • Assigning macros to quick access toolbar

DATA CALCULATIONS

  • Date and time functions for attendance
  • Working days
  • Years of service

 

LOOKUP FUNCTIONS

  • Vlookup and hlookup
  • Approximate and exact match
  • Index and match functions

 

CREATING MASTERS WITH DATA VALIDATION

  • Employee status, locations and grades.
  • Employee designations, nationalities and departments.
  • Date and number validation.
  • Custom validation.

 

LEAVE RECORDS AND CALCULATIONS

  • Is the employee eligible for leave or bonus? If function
  • Accrued leave
  • Leave taken records
  • Leave balance

PAYROLL AND BENEFITS

  • Payroll sheet and salary slips
  • Using attendance data to calculate payroll

 

END OF SERVICE CALCULATIONS

  • Computing gratuity
  • Computing cashable leave

 

CHARTS AND GRAPHS

  • Speedometer chart
  • Performance against range
  • Spinner

 

COMPREHENSIVE EXERCISES

  • Calculating gratuity
  • Salary increment calculator
  • Performance review scores

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BOOST's Professional Attendance Certificate “BPAC” is always given to the delegates after completing the training course, and depends on their attendance of the program at a rate of no less than 80%, besides their active participation and engagement during the program sessions.
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COURSE METHODOLOGY

Our Training programs are implemented by combining the participants' academic knowledge and practical practice (30% theoretical / 70% practical activities).

At The end of the training program, Participants are involved in practical workshop to show their skills in applying what they were trained for. A detailed report is submitted to each participant and the training department in the organization on the results of the participant's performance and the return on training. Our programs focus on exercises, case studies, and individual and group presentations.

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