Excel for Business: Essentials and Advance with AI
Our Excel for Business Owners program helps aspiring entrepreneurs master both basic and advanced Excel to manage finances, analyze data, and make smarter business decisions with tools like ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot embedded in Excel.
Week 1 – June 22: Foundations & Financial Formulas
Set up spreadsheets with professional formatting
Apply SUM, AVERAGE, MIN, MAX in business contexts (e.g., sales tracking, expense summaries)
Week 2 – June 29: Logical Functions & Decision-Making
Use IF functions for logical comparisons
Apply to business scenarios: pricing decisions, budgeting, and conditional reporting
Week 3 – July 6: Data Management & Analysis
Organize and analyze data with MULTIPLY, FILTER, SORT, and DATA VALIDATION
Create Named Ranges for efficiency
Practice with real-world business examples: client lists, sales data, reporting accuracy
Week 4 – July 13: Final Exam & Celebration
Apply all skills to a practical business scenario
Review and reinforce concepts learned in previous weeks
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Week 5 – July 20: Organizing & Retrieving Business Data
Use XLOOKUP and INDEX/MATCH for advanced data retrieval
Analyze business datasets efficiently
Week 6 – July 27: PivotTables & Interactive Dashboards
Create PivotTables for summarizing business data
Build interactive dashboards for reporting and decision-making
Week 7 – August 3: Efficiency & Automation
Apply Advanced Conditional Formatting and Macros to automate tasks
Streamline repetitive business operations
Week 8 – August 10: Final Exam & Celebration
Demonstrate mastery through a real-world business dataset
Present insights and analysis from course exercises