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Cleanse, Analyze and Validate Financial Data

Coursera

Cleanse, Analyze and Validate Financial Data

LearningMate

Instructor: LearningMate

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

2 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

2 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Use advanced Excel techniques to cleanse, analyze, and validate financial data, ensuring high-quality, reliable reporting.

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February 2026

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This course is part of the Financial Data Analysis with Excel Specialization
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There are 2 modules in this course

In this module, you will learn to master a powerful, modern workflow for financial data. You will discover why automated data transformation is critical, learn to use Power Query to cleanse and structure raw data, and then use that clean data to build advanced, interactive PivotTable dashboards to uncover key business insights.

What's included

3 videos1 reading2 assignments

In this module, you will learn to build a resilient system for maintaining data quality. You will learn how to design and implement a proactive data validation framework to identify errors before they cause problems. This module culminates in a graded project where you will apply all the skills from the course to a new dataset, proving your ability to manage the full financial data lifecycle from cleansing to validation.

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2 videos1 reading3 assignments

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