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Financial Data Analysis with Excel Specialization

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Financial Data Analysis with Excel Specialization

Excel Financial Analysis And Reporting Skills.

Build advanced Excel skills for financial modeling, analysis, and dynamic reporting.

LearningMate

Instructor: LearningMate

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Intermediate level

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4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Build and validate dynamic financial models using advanced Excel techniques and automated data processes

  • Perform comprehensive financial analysis including variance analysis, forecasting, and capital structure evaluation

  • Create compelling visual reports and interactive dashboards that communicate financial insights effectively

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February 2026

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Specialization - 12 course series

What you'll learn

  • Analyze a company's financial health by differentiating the 3 core financial statements and calculating key profitability and liquidity ratios.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Benchmarking
Category: Financial Analysis
Category: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Category: Gross Profit
Category: Case Studies
Category: Spreadsheet Software
Category: Financial Statements
Category: Financial Data
Category: Annual Reports
Category: Cash Flows
Category: Business Metrics
Category: Income Statement
Category: Balance Sheet
Category: Performance Analysis
Category: Financial Statement Analysis

What you'll learn

  • Build and validate dynamic, three-statement financial models from raw data, ensuring accuracy through automated reconciliation and verification.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Verification And Validation
Category: Financial Modeling
Category: Reconciliation
Category: Balance Sheet
Category: Data Validation
Category: Excel Formulas
Category: Income Statement
Category: Spreadsheet Software
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Financial Analysis
Category: Cash Flows
Category: Financial Data
Category: Financial Statements
Category: Automation
Category: Financial Reporting

What you'll learn

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

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Validation
Category: Data Quality
Category: Data Cleansing
Category: Pivot Tables And Charts
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Case Studies
Category: Data Integrity
Category: Dashboard
Category: Automation
Category: Financial Data
Category: Data Integration
Category: Financial Analysis

What you'll learn

  • Analyze financial data, calculate variances, and use conditional formatting to highlight key budget deviations for faster, data-driven decisions.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Variance Analysis
Category: Budgeting
Category: Financial Forecasting
Category: Business Communication
Category: Business Metrics
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Dashboard
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Financial Reporting
Category: Budget Management
Category: Financial Data
Category: Financial Analysis
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Excel Formulas

What you'll learn

  • Analyze historical sales data and create financial forecasts for different growth scenarios using key Excel functions.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Excel Formulas
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Forecasting
Category: Financial Forecasting
Category: Financial Modeling
Category: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Business Planning
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Sales Management
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Predictive Modeling
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Performance Metric
Category: Trend Analysis
Category: Revenue Forecasting

What you'll learn

  • Create a zero-based budget by classifying fixed and variable expenses and justifying each allocation to align with strategic goals.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cost Accounting
Category: Accountability
Category: Cost Control
Category: Variance Analysis
Category: Budget Management
Category: Financial Controls
Category: Financial Planning
Category: Financial Analysis

What you'll learn

  • Learners will validate data integrity and create summary reports in Excel using data validation techniques and PivotTables for financial analysis.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Pivot Tables And Charts
Category: Data Integrity
Category: Business Analytics
Category: Excel Formulas
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Financial Data
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Data Validation
Category: Data Synthesis
Category: Descriptive Statistics
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Data Quality
Category: Exploratory Data Analysis
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Trend Analysis
Category: Statistical Reporting

What you'll learn

  • Conduct budget variance analysis and evaluate capital scenarios to make strategic financing recommendations compliant with covenants.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Financial Modeling
Category: Budgeting
Category: Variance Analysis
Category: Budget Management
Category: Cost Management
Category: Corporate Finance
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Spreadsheet Software
Category: Financial Analysis
Category: Financial Forecasting
Category: Capital Budgeting
Category: Business Analytics
Category: Case Studies
Category: Financial Statement Analysis
Category: Risk Management
Category: Risk Modeling
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Microsoft Excel
Audit & Evaluate Excel Models

Audit & Evaluate Excel Models

Course 9 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Systematically audit Excel models, diagnose errors, and evaluate version changes to ensure financial accuracy and model reliability.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Auditing
Category: Version Control
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Analysis
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Financial Auditing
Category: Governance Risk Management and Compliance
Category: Financial Modeling
Category: Case Studies
Category: Performance Metric
Category: Risk Modeling
Category: Business Modeling
Category: Performance Analysis
Category: Change Control
Category: Excel Formulas
Category: Technical Documentation
Category: Peer Review

What you'll learn

  • Analyze financial models to diagnose forecast errors and synthesize best practices from past successes to create actionable improvement checklists.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Analysis
Category: Financial Forecasting
Category: Project Documentation
Category: Continuous Improvement Process
Category: Knowledge Transfer
Category: Forecasting
Category: Quality Improvement
Category: Data Integrity
Category: Procedure Development
Category: Financial Modeling
Category: Root Cause Analysis
Category: Data Validation
Category: Process Improvement and Optimization
Category: Model Evaluation

What you'll learn

  • Learners will construct interactive Excel dashboards and optimize their design for clarity and impact using data visualization best practices.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Presentation
Category: Dashboard
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Design Reviews
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Business Intelligence
Category: Pivot Tables And Charts
Category: Spreadsheet Software
Category: Data Modeling

What you'll learn

  • Translate raw financial data into clear, high-impact visual reports and validate their effectiveness using rapid-interpretation tests.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Performance Reporting
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Usability Testing
Category: Performance Analysis
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: User Feedback
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Case Studies
Category: Business Reporting
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Communication
Category: Financial Reporting

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