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Excel Fundamentals - Formulas for Finance 

Excel Fundamentals - Formulas for Finance
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CFI 
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
 at 
CFI 
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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CFI 
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
 at 
CFI 
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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Kotthapelly Srividya
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Learning Experience: Good experence Such a good Platform to learn This Excel Fundamental-Formulas for Finance cource help to improve my Skills comming to pros good faculty
Faculty: faculty was superb good curricuum of cource Financial statement and Accounting Cycle with excel sheet explination
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Maria Akash Thomas
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Learning Experience: It was about the Excel Fundamentals and the Formulas for Finance. It's very useful for freshers for sure bcoz they provide Examples for all in Course.
Faculty: It's very good. All the People are very well trained and experienced so they will do their own Yeah it's a good thing and personally it's very useful for me to Learn about the basic Excel Formulas. And after completing the course they conducted the Assessment and if you have cleared they provide the verified certificate
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Ajit Balasaheb Pawar
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Learning Experience: Basically this course are fully online and a created by cfi institute
Faculty: Everyone is knowledgeable lecturer and good management Faculty's This course are 3 to 5 hrs and i like there time management because not a specific time in attend the class.
Course Support: Getting a job for mnc
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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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Ankit Panthri
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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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