Excel Data Visualization and Dashboards

Name: Excel Data Visualization and Dashboards
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Learn how to design professional, insightful dashboards in Excel that communicate key business insights clearly and effectively.

Build interactive dashboards from scratch using charts, tables, and formatting techniques
Apply advanced visualization tools like sparklines, conditional formatting, and waterfall charts
Present financial and business data with clarity to impress managers, clients, and stakeholders

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Excel Data Visualization and Dashboards

Overview

Excel Data Visualization and Dashboards Course Overview

Effective dashboards turn raw data into actionable insights, making them an essential tool for finance and business professionals. In this course, you’ll learn how to build clean, professional dashboards in Excel from the ground up. Through step-by-step instruction, you’ll create two complete dashboards using charts, tables, sparklines, variance analysis, and advanced formatting. By the end, you’ll be equipped to design visuals that not only look polished but also highlight the most important financial insights for decision-making.

Who should take this course?

This course is designed for finance, accounting, and business professionals who want to strengthen their data visualization skills in Excel. It is especially valuable for those pursuing careers as financial analysts, business analysts, or investment professionals who need to communicate insights effectively.

Excel Data Visualization and Dashboards Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:

Build fully functional dashboards in Excel using charts, tables, and financial data
Apply visualization best practices to create clear and professional outputs
Use sparklines, variance analysis, and conditional formatting to highlight insights
Present revenue, profit, and valuation trends with charts such as the waterfall chart, area chart, and football field chart
Design dashboards that communicate key takeaways for clients, executives, or stakeholders

Prerequisite Courses

Recommended courses to complete before taking this course.

Prerequisite Skills

Recommended skills to have before taking this course.

Excel
Basic computer skills

What You'll Learn

Lesson

Multimedia

Exams

Files

Qualified Assessment

This Course is Part of the Following Programs

Why stop here? Expand your skills and show your expertise with the professional certifications, specializations, and CPE credits you’re already on your way to earning.

Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA®) Certification

Skills Learned Financial modeling and valuation, sensitivity analysis, strategy
Career Prep Investment banking and equity research, FP&A, corporate development

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Financial Planning & Analysis Professional

Skills You’ll Gain Accounting, Finance, Excel, Data Analysis, Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Modeling, Budgeting, Forecasting, Power Query, Power BI, Data Visualization, Economics, and more
Great For The FPAP certification focuses on practical, desk-ready skills that are immediately applicable to current FP&A professionals or anyone seeking to land a role in FP&A

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Excel Skills for Professionals

Skills You’ll Gain Excel, Data Preparation, Data Visualization
Great For Ideal for business professionals, analysts, and finance specialists who want to strengthen their Excel skills for modeling, data preparation, and reporting.

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DASHBOARD IS NOTHING BUT BRILLIANT

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Was tough, tiring and also fun at the same time.

Dashboard and data visualization is one of the key skills of a financial data analyst and I'm so happy to be part of this learning process. we do hard things

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Trust me it is interesting creating those designs.

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Penzi Hanzooma

Challenged

I was not very familiar with this course but after going through, i have been challenged and learn so many important things.

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Excel Data Visualization and Dashboards

Excel Data Visualization and Dashboards Course Overview

Who should take this course?

Excel Data Visualization and Dashboards Learning Objectives

What You'll Learn

Introduction

Getting Started

Building and Formatting Charts (Dashboard 1)

Tables and Analysis (Dashboard 1)

Reviewing Dashboard 1

Building Dashboard 2

Reviewing Dashboard 2

Course Summary

Qualified Assessment

This Course is Part of the Following Programs

Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA®) Certification

Financial Planning & Analysis Professional

Excel Skills for Professionals

What Our Members Say

Farai Taurai

Aiah Gbakima

Agwaniru Nzubechukwu

Erick Karani

Oluwatobi Aina

Taye Ologun

Abel Joshua Chinaza

Jones Kaliwo

Laban Stephen

Ezenekwe James

Uchenna Christian Nwabunwanne

Muhammad Ammar

Ian Lemuel dela Cruz

Holiness Ihedinma Onyemaechi

Simon Mutua Mutie

Caleb Entsie Okyere

Jacquelane Gacheri

paidamoyo mundondo

David Asare

Esther Ejike

Nelly Naimasia

Habila David

Mary John

Penzi Hanzooma

Tamara Gunde

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