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Excel Fundamentals - Formulas for Finance 

Excel Fundamentals - Formulas for Finance
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Overview

Learn everything you need to know about Excel spreadsheets for a career in corporate finance and investment banking

Duration

4 hours

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Excel Fundamentals - Formulas for Finance
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Excel Fundamentals - Formulas for Finance
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Corporate Finance Institute
  • Prepare a role for Investment banking, Private equity, Corporate development, Equity research, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
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Excel Fundamentals - Formulas for Finance
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Course details

Who should do this course?
  • For beginners, intermediate, and even advanced users
More about this course
  • In this free Excel tutorial, you will learn all the tips, tricks, shortcuts, functions and formulas you need to be an Excel power user
  • This free Excel course is designed specifically for spreadsheet users who are already performing professional financial analysis and financial modeling or are looking to prep for a wall street career
  • This free Excel course is based on real investment banking training programs at global banks
  • The quality of instruction you receive in this course will have you just as sharp as if you took an expensive, live Wall Street course
  • This free spreadsheet training course starts with the Excel basics and quickly progresses to a more advanced level where even experts will learn something new
  • We believe it is important to start at the bottom and build a solid base, which is why we review all the foundational skills you need before building more advanced spreadsheets
  • In this Excel tutorial, you will learn to leave behind the mouse and use keyboard shortcuts to dramatically improve and speed up your spreadsheet building skills
  • In the second half of the Excel crash course, you’ll notice that the functions and formulas get more sophisticated and the quality of financial analysis and financial modeling become much higher
  • This half of the course focuses on finance-specific formulas that you would use as an analyst performing financial analysis on the job
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Excel Fundamentals - Formulas for Finance
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Curriculum

Introduction

Course introduction

Instructor biography

Key learning objectives

Keyboard over the mouse

Excel Layout

Download files - Excel template and course notes

Layout overview

Workbooks, worksheets, cells, & formula bar

The ribbon - home

The ribbon- insert page, layout, formulas, data review, view, help

Keyboard shortcuts to navigate the ribbon

Interactive exercise 1

Excel Settings

Excel settings overview

Excel general settings

Excel formulas settings

Excel data proofing, save language, ease of access settings

Excel advanced settings, customize ribbon, quick access toolbar

Excel add-ins

[Optional] Macabacus Excel Add-in

Interactive exercise 2

Basic Financial Analysis Setup

Objectives

Format background, special numbers, column width

[Optional] Special Formatting Using Macabacus

Page break preview, orientation, freeze panes

Paste special, format numbers, subtotals

Font colors with paste special

[Optional] Autocolor and Blue-Black Toggle Using Macabacus

Assumptions, percentages, decimal places

Fill right, borders, view gridlines

Interactive exercise 3

Advanced Financial Analysis Setup

Objectives

Structure, organization, duplicate sheets, grouping

Anchoring, formatting, and grouping cells

Editing multiple sheets, naming cells

Interactive exercise 4

Tracing precedents and dependents

Go to special, conditional formatting

Dynamic titles and headers

Interactive exercise 5

Functions & Formulas

Objectives

Date functions and time periods

Yearfrac function

Sum, average, sumproduct, median

Interactive exercise 6

IF statements

Rounding, and absolute functions

Min, max, small, large functions

Interactive exercise 7

IFERROR function

[Optional] Error Wrap Using Macabacus

Find and replace

Wrap Up

Download completed Excel files from the course

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Learning Experience: Easy Learning
Faculty: Online Video Course, Very Good , Need to Add more Course Understand Video Tutorials , Mock test , Examination, They provides us Proper Material for the courses, which is Completely free
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Learning Experience: The overall experience was good. It is good course to get hands on excel.
Faculty: The faculty was good and fluent in delivering. After the completion of modules there was a quiz which tested the concepts of excel.
Course Support: No
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