Excel Pivot Tables: From Basics to Advanced Analysis

Excel Pivot Tables: From Basics to Advanced Analysis is a practical Business course for anyone who wants to turn raw spreadsheet data into clear, useful reports. You will learn how to build fast, reliable Excel summaries, dashboards, and business insights with PivotTables, PivotCharts, slicers, calculated fields, and clean source data.

Build Confident Business Analysis Skills With Excel PivotTables

• Prepare clean source data so your PivotTable reports stay accurate and easy to refresh.
• Create summaries that compare sales, costs, margins, variance, regions, products, and customers.
• Use PivotCharts, slicers, timelines, and dashboards to present Business results clearly.
• Apply advanced tools such as calculated fields, calculated items, rankings, percentages, and running totals.

Learn how to analyse Business data in Excel using PivotTables from the fundamentals through advanced reporting and dashboard techniques.

This course walks you step by step through the full PivotTable workflow, starting with when to use PivotTables and how to structure clean source data for reliable analysis. You will create your first PivotTable, work with rows, columns, values, and filters, and choose the right summary method for each Business question, including sum, count, average, minimum, and maximum.

As the course progresses, you will learn how to sort, filter, format, group dates, analyse time periods, and use Show Values As for percentages, rankings, and running totals. You will also practise real Business analysis applications, including sales performance, cost tracking, margin analysis, variance review, and multi-level breakdowns by region, product, and customer.

Advanced lessons cover calculated fields, calculated items, slicers, timelines, PivotCharts, and connected dashboards, helping you build fast, reliable Excel summaries, dashboards, and business insights with PivotTables, PivotCharts, slicers, calculated fields, and clean source data. The capstone project brings everything together as you build a refreshable Business performance report that is clear, interactive, and ready to use. By the end, you will be able to move from raw Excel data to confident, decision-ready analysis with speed and accuracy.