Business Data Analysis

Microsoft Excel Mastery: Formulas, Functions, and Analysis

Build confident Excel skills for clean workbooks, powerful formulas, and practical business analysis.

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Quick Course Facts
20
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
20
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
6.9
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Microsoft Excel Mastery: Formulas, Functions, and Analysis Course

Microsoft Excel Mastery: Formulas, Functions, and Analysis is a practical Business course designed to help you create clean workbooks, write accurate formulas, and turn raw data into useful insight. You will build confident Excel skills for clean workbooks, powerful formulas, and practical business analysis while learning workflows you can apply immediately in professional settings.

Master Excel Formulas And Business Analysis With Confidence

  • Learn the Excel foundations needed to navigate workbooks, format worksheets, and design organized files.
  • Build reliable formulas using cell references, logical functions, lookup tools, and error-handling techniques.
  • Prepare, summarize, and analyze Business data with tables, PivotTables, charts, slicers, and dashboards.
  • Create executive-ready reports with documentation, protection, and handoff practices for professional use.

A complete Excel course for formulas, functions, reporting, and practical Business analysis.

This course begins with the essentials of the Excel interface, workbook structure, worksheet design, cells, ranges, and formatting. You will learn how to build workbooks that are easy to read, maintain, and share, giving you a stronger foundation for accurate Business reporting and analysis.

As the course progresses, you will work with formula basics, operators, order of calculation, relative and absolute references, math functions, statistical functions, logical tests, text cleanup, and date and time formulas. These lessons help you reduce mistakes, improve formula accuracy, and handle real-world data more efficiently.

You will also develop stronger analysis skills with XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP, INDEX MATCH, IFERROR, formula auditing tools, Excel Tables, structured references, sorting, filtering, conditional formatting, data validation, SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, and AVERAGEIFS. These techniques are central to Microsoft Excel Mastery: Formulas, Functions, and Analysis because they help turn scattered data into clear, usable Business insight.

Finally, you will create practical reporting outputs using PivotTables, PivotCharts, slicers, visual design principles, scenario analysis, Goal Seek, What-If tools, and a hands-on dashboard workflow. By the end of the course, you will be able to build confident Excel skills for clean workbooks, powerful formulas, and practical business analysis, leaving you better prepared to manage data, answer Business questions, and present results with clarity.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Excel Foundations

2 lessons

In this lesson, Professor Samuel Reed introduces the Excel workspace and the structure of a workbook. Learners will identify the major parts of the interface, understand how workbooks, worksheets, row…

Lesson 2: Cells, Ranges, Formatting, and Worksheet Design

20 min
In this lesson, Professor Samuel Reed introduces the practical building blocks of a clean Excel worksheet: cells, ranges, formatting choices, and basic layout design. Learners will practice thinking o…

Formula Foundations

2 lessons

Lesson 3: Formula Basics: Operators, Order, and Accuracy

19 min
This lesson introduces the core mechanics of Excel formulas: how formulas begin, how arithmetic and comparison operators work, how Excel decides calculation order, and how to make formulas easier to a…

Lesson 4: Relative, Absolute, and Mixed Cell References

18 min
This lesson explains how Excel adjusts cell references when formulas are copied, filled, or moved. Learners will distinguish relative references like A1 , absolute references like $A$1 , and mixed ref…

Core Functions

2 lessons

Lesson 5: Essential Math and Statistical Functions

21 min
In this lesson, students learn how to use Excel’s essential math and statistical functions to summarize business data quickly and accurately. The focus is on practical functions used every day: SUM, A…

Lesson 6: Logical Functions with IF, AND, OR, and Nested Conditions

22 min
This lesson teaches how to use Excel logical functions to make formulas respond to business rules. Learners will build practical formulas with IF , combine criteria with AND and OR , and write nested …

Data Preparation

2 lessons

Lesson 7: Text Functions for Cleaning and Reshaping Data

20 min
Text data is often messy before it is useful. Names arrive with extra spaces, product codes mix letters and numbers, imported lists include inconsistent capitalization, and identifiers may need to be …

Lesson 8: Date and Time Functions for Business Tracking

19 min
In this lesson, Professor Samuel Reed teaches how Excel stores dates and times, why formatting is different from actual values, and how to build reliable tracking formulas for business workbooks. Lear…

Lookup and Matching

1 lesson

Lesson 9: Lookup Skills with XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP, and INDEX MATCH

24 min
This lesson builds practical lookup skills for matching IDs, names, codes, and categories across Excel tables. Students learn when to use XLOOKUP , how to read legacy VLOOKUP formulas, and why INDEX M…

Formula Reliability

1 lesson

Lesson 10: Handling Errors with IFERROR and Formula Auditing Tools

20 min
In this lesson, students learn how to make formulas more reliable by handling expected errors with IFERROR and by using Excel’s built-in formula auditing tools to investigate unexpected results. The f…

Organizing Data

2 lessons

Lesson 11: Excel Tables, Structured References, and Dynamic Ranges

21 min
This lesson shows how to turn ordinary ranges into Excel Tables that stay organized as data grows. Learners will practice creating tables, naming them clearly, using filter and sort controls, and unde…

Lesson 12: Sorting, Filtering, and Conditional Formatting for Insight

19 min
In this lesson, Professor Samuel Reed shows how to turn a static Excel data range into an organized, searchable, and visually useful analysis surface. You will learn how to sort records without breaki…

Workbook Controls

1 lesson

Lesson 13: Data Validation and Dropdown Controls

18 min
In this lesson, Professor Samuel Reed shows how to use Excel’s Data Validation tools to prevent messy inputs before they create formula errors, reporting problems, and cleanup work. You will learn how…

Analysis Functions

1 lesson

Lesson 14: Summarizing Data with SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, and AVERAGEIFS

22 min
In this lesson, students learn how to summarize business data with SUMIFS , COUNTIFS , and AVERAGEIFS . The focus is on building reliable multi-condition summaries without manually filtering, copying,…

PivotTables and Reporting

2 lessons

Lesson 15: PivotTables for Fast Business Analysis

24 min
In this lesson, students learn how to use PivotTables to turn clean Excel data into fast, flexible business summaries. The focus is practical analysis: grouping records by category, summarizing values…

Lesson 16: PivotCharts, Slicers, and Interactive Reports

23 min
In this lesson, students turn PivotTable summaries into interactive reporting tools using PivotCharts, slicers, timelines, and report layout controls. The focus is practical: choosing the right chart …

Visualization

1 lesson

Lesson 17: Charts, Visual Design, and Executive-Ready Presentation

21 min
In this lesson, Professor Samuel Reed shows how to turn Excel data into charts that communicate clearly to managers, clients, and decision-makers. The focus is not on decorative charting, but on choos…

Decision Support

1 lesson

Lesson 18: Scenario Analysis, Goal Seek, and What-If Tools

20 min
This lesson shows how to use Excel’s decision support tools to test business assumptions before committing to a plan. Students learn how Scenario Manager, Goal Seek, and Data Tables fit into practical…

Applied Analysis Project

1 lesson

Lesson 19: Building a Practical Excel Dashboard Workflow

25 min
In this lesson, students build a practical workflow for turning cleaned Excel data into a focused business dashboard. The emphasis is not on decorative design, but on a repeatable process: define the …

Professional Excel Practice

1 lesson

Lesson 20: Workbook Review, Protection, Documentation, and Handoff

18 min
This lesson shows how to prepare an Excel workbook for professional use after the formulas, analysis, and visuals are complete. Learners review accuracy, structure, formatting, assumptions, links, and…
About Your Instructor
Professor Samuel Reed

Professor Samuel Reed

Professor Samuel Reed guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.