Transform your approach to financial data with Cleanse, Analyze and Validate Financial Data, an intermediate course designed for finance professionals, analysts, and anyone looking to turn messy, unreliable data into a source of truth. In today's data-driven world, critical business decisions hinge on the quality of your financial reports, yet errors are common and costly. This course provides a powerful, practical workflow to ensure your data is accurate, consistent, and ready for analysis.

Cleanse, Analyze and Validate Financial Data

Cleanse, Analyze and Validate Financial Data
This course is part of Financial Data Analysis with Excel Specialization

Instructor: LearningMate
Access provided by University of Florida
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What you'll learn
Use advanced Excel techniques to cleanse, analyze, and validate financial data, ensuring high-quality, reliable reporting.
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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.
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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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