Ready to move beyond basic data entry and unlock the predictive power of Excel? This intermediate course, Project Sales: Excel Forecasting Functions, is designed for aspiring financial analysts, business planners, and data-driven professionals who want to build robust financial forecasts. You’ll learn to transform historical sales data into meaningful insights by calculating key performance metrics like Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) and moving averages to understand underlying trends.
Project Sales: Excel Forecasting Functions
Project Sales: Excel Forecasting Functions
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Analyze historical sales data and create financial forecasts for different growth scenarios using key Excel functions.
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In this module, you will lay the essential groundwork for any credible forecast by learning to analyze and interpret historical data. You will move beyond surface-level numbers to find the real story they tell by calculating key performance metrics like Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) and moving averages in Excel. This will enable you to smooth out volatility and identify stable, underlying trends in your sales data.
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In this module, you will translate your analytical insights into actionable, scenario-based financial forecasts. You will master Excel’s AVERAGE and GROWTH functions to model both "flat" and "trend" growth scenarios. The module culminates in a final project where you will build a complete forecast from scratch and justify your modeling choices, proving your ability to not only create projections but also to communicate them effectively to stakeholders.
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