COURSE OUTLINE

Course Name: Excel Skills for Business

Syllabus Description:

Unit-1 Introduction to MS Excel and Look-up functions 14 Hours

significance of spreadsheets
how to create Spreadsheets
various components of Excel window
overview of basic arithmetic functions
introduction to Excel add-ins
use of if function
example of if function
nested if along with examples
calculating grades of student using nested if
Lookup function in MS Excel
Examples of Lookup
VLookup syntax and advantages
HLookup functions syntax and advantages
Examples of VLookup and HLookup
Unit-2 Index, Match and Text functions 10 Hours
syntax and use of index function
example of index
syntax and use of match function
example of match
combining index and match together to perform searching
role of various Text functions in spreadsheets
examples of Len, upper, lower, concatenate text functions
combining first and last name using text functions
examples of search and replace text functions
using text functions to find first name and last name from given full names
Unit-3 Mathematical, Statistical and Financial functions in MS-Excel 13 Hours
introduction to various mathematical functions
examples of SQRT, LCM, GCD, MOD mathematical functions
examples of other important mathematical functions
logical functions in Excel
examples of logical functions
statistical functions in MS Excel
examples of various statistical functions
introduction to financial functions
calculating Future Value in MS Excel
calculating Present Value in MS Excel
examples of using NPER function
PMT functions in Excel
other important financial functions of MS Excel
Unit-4 Date and Time functions 10 Hours
Handling Date and time in spreadsheets
various date formats in spreadsheets
syntax and use of date and time functions (TODAY, NOW, YEAR, TIME)
syntax and use of date and time functions (MONTH, DATE, DAY etc.)
situation-based problems of calculating student age
calculating working days examples
use of yearfrac function in finding difference between 2 given dates
datedif function of MS Excel
weekday and weeknum functions
other useful date and time functions
Unit-5 Sensitivity analysis, data tables and pivot tables 13 Hours
introduction to Pivot tables
multiple fields in row, column, or data section
examples of Pivot table
creating pivot charts in spreadsheets
problem Sensitivity Analysis with Data Tables
introduction to advanced charts in MS Excel
line chart and column chart in Excel
pie chart and other types of charts
creating sparklines in MS Excel
goal Seek application (Interpretation and decision-making using spreadsheets)
histograms and its types (symmetric, positively skewed, negatively skewed, multiple
peaks)
histograms and its types (symmetric, positively skewed, negatively skewed, multiple
peaks)
other examples of histograms

LEARNING RESOURCES

Prescribed Text Book

1. Excel 2019 Bible by Michael Alexander, Wiley Publication

Reference Books

1. Excel 2019 All-in-One by Lokesh Lalwani, BPB Publishers

2. Microsoft Office Excel 2007 by Torben Lage Frandsen
3. Statistics for Managers using Microsoft Excel by David M. Levine, Pearson Education
4. Excel Functions and Formulas by Bernd Held, BPB Publications