Dynamic Business Reports and Dashboards Using Excel
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | ||
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Dynamic Business Reports and Dashboards Using Excel | 19 Oct 2025 | 23 Oct 2025 | Muscat, Oman | $ 4,500 | Register |

Dynamic Business Reports and Dashboards Using Excel
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Dynamic Business Reports and Dashboards Using Excel | 19 Oct 2025 | 23 Oct 2025 | Muscat, Oman | $ 4,500 |
Introduction
Business professionals are frequently required to prepare management reports, scorecards, and dashboards. Attending this course will help you reach advanced Excel levels allowing you to produce such important reports. The course starts with pivot tables, the most important tool ever created to perform data reporting, analysis, and reconciliation. It then continues with high-level modeling techniques, integration, and reports visualization, and it ends with automation. Your take-away is guaranteed to add value to your daily and periodic tasks. This course is a must for every intermediate-level Excel user.
Objectives
- Use their Excel expertise in data slicing and dicing, data massaging, data aggregation, data integration with Access, web, text, SQL, and other databases using pivot tables
- Perform advanced and dynamic data validations
- Design outstanding visualization charts, dashboards, scorecards, and flash reports
- Develop master-level report solutions using advanced form controls and buttons
- Record, write and edit powerful macros that will perform routine tasks in no-time
Upon the successful completion of this program, participants will be able to:
Training Methodology
This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.
Who Should Attend?
Business professionals, accountants, financial analysts, senior and junior accountants, business analysts, accounting and finance professionals, research professionals, marketing and sales, administrative staff, supervisors, general staff from any function who need to learn and apply state-of-the-art techniques to their daily business reporting, reconciliations, and analysis.
Course Outline
Day 1: Essential reporting requirement skills
- The 20 rules of pivot tables and pivot charts
- Slicer techniques
- Advanced pivot charts techniques
- Multiple consolidation ranges
- Importing text files
- Connecting to access databases
- Connecting to SQL databases
- Customizing connections properties
Day 2: Advanced Data Structuring Techniques
- Custom and advanced data validation
- Creating and managing innovative conditional formatting
- Dependent drop-down list
- Data validation with conditional formatting
- Data entry form
Day 3: Charting and Visualization Techniques
- Creating dynamic labels
- Using the camera tool
- Working with formula-driven visualizations
- Using fancy fonts
- Working with sparklines
- Fancy thermometer charts
- Thermometer chart
- Performance against chart range
Day 4: Building Report Solutions
- Conceptualizing and understanding report solutions
- Developing a report solution
- Configuring spreadsheet report data options
- Enabling background refresh
- Refreshing data when opening the file
- Combo-box modeling
- List-box modeling
- Spinner
- Option-button modeling
- Check-box data models
- Combo box modeling
Day 5: Macro Charged Reporting
- Recording, editing, testing VBA macros
- Building a macro-driven reconciliation program
- Building a budget variance reporting program
- Building a vendor and invoice analysis report