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Advanced Excel for Finance & Business

Practical Advanced Excel for Finance, Accounting and Business Professionals

26

Lessons

5h 42m

Total time

Self-paced

Format

11

Practice files

499 one-time · no subscription

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What you’ll build

Real deliverables, not just watched videos.

Building a finance-ready workbook
PivotTables for sales & expense analysis
Designing a one-page management dashboard
Building a monthly budget model
Budget vs Actual variance reporting
AR/AP ageing analysis
Inventory valuation & stock analysis
Reconciling bank vs book in Excel
Building a monthly MIS pack
Automating data prep with Power Query
What you’ll learn

You will learn to:

  • Clean exported business data into a reliable working dataset
  • Build error-resistant Excel workbooks with structured references
  • Use advanced lookup logic (XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH) confidently
  • Analyze sales and expenses with SUMIF, SUMIFS and conditional logic
  • Build PivotTables and PivotCharts that hold up under scrutiny
  • Design a management dashboard from raw business data
  • Perform financial analysis, ratios and trend comparisons
  • Build a monthly budget model and a budget-vs-actual report
  • Analyze receivables and payables ageing
  • Perform a real bank reconciliation
  • Build a monthly MIS report pack
  • Automate data preparation with Power Query
  • Complete a practical financial/business capstone project
Course curriculum

A structured learning roadmap.

21 modules · 26 lessons · 5h 42m total

  • SUM, SUMIF, SUMIFS for business totals12m
  • COUNTIF/COUNTIFS and AVERAGEIF/AVERAGEIFS12m
  • Logical formulas for business rules14m
  • VLOOKUP limitations → XLOOKUP14m
  • INDEX/MATCH for flexible lookups14m
  • Multi-condition business calculations12m
  • Cleaning text from exports (ERP/bank/GST)14m
  • Joining text and working with dates14m
  • Auditing and error-proofing a workbook10m
  • From messy export to clean dataset15m
  • Excel Tables and structured references12m
  • Building error-proof input sheets12m
  • PivotTables for sales & expense analysis15m
  • PivotCharts that tell a story12m
  • Designing a one-page management dashboard15m
  • Ratio & trend analysis from statements14m
  • Building a monthly budget model12m
  • Budget vs Actual variance reporting12m
  • AR/AP ageing analysis14m
  • Inventory valuation & stock analysis12m
  • Reconciling bank vs book in Excel14m
  • Building a monthly MIS pack14m
  • Automating data prep with Power Query15m
  • Final Project: SME management report & dashboard20m
Real datasets

11 real working files, not sample data.

The same reconciled Excel files shown on screen throughout the course — sales, purchases, payroll, receivables, payables, inventory and bank data from one running SME case study.

Enroll to download all 11 practice files

Assessment & certificate

Proof you actually learned it.

40

Exam questions

45 min

Time limit

70%

Passing score

3

Attempts allowed

A practical assessment — a downloadable workbook with defined tasks — is submitted alongside the graded exam before a certificate is issued.

On completion, Eduints issues a verifiable PDF certificate with a QR code confirming your completion and assessment score. It confirms course completion — it is not a university degree, government licence or professional accreditation.

Questions

Before you enroll

Basic familiarity — opening a workbook, entering data, simple formulas — is enough. The course moves from intermediate to advanced.
No subscription — enrolled access continues for as long as this course is available on Eduints.
Your enrollment activates automatically once payment is verified, and the full curriculum, practice files and exam unlock on your dashboard immediately.
See our Refund Policy page for the full terms.
Excel 2019, Microsoft 365, or Excel for the web. A few lessons use XLOOKUP and dynamic arrays, which need 365 or a recent version — alternatives are shown where relevant.

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499 one-time · no subscription