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Advanced Pivot Table: Ticket to Self-service Dashboards

The course illustrates where does pivot table stand in the Excel Techniques, and brings up the topic of when to and when NOT to use a pivot table.

Created byLenny Wu
AdvancedUpdated Jan 20, 2025
Advanced Pivot Table: Ticket to Self-service Dashboards

What You'll Learn

  • check_circle● Understand crucial elements and skills in building a dashboard
  • check_circle● Recognize ways of building inter-connected data models for pivot tables and Power Pivot
  • check_circle● Discover 5 extreme Pivot Table hacks
  • check_circle● Recognize differences between GETPIVOTDATA() and CUBEVALUE()
  • check_circle● Understand 7 best practices of building pivot tables in a dashboard

About This Course

The course is presented in four parts.

First, the course illustrates where does pivot table stand in the Excel Techniques, and brings up the topic of when to and when NOT to use a pivot table.

Second, the course illustrates how to build a self-service dashboard using: o pivot tables o pivot charts o slicers o timeline

Third, the course provides 5 extreme hacks for pivot tables including: o How to collapse 12 months data into 1 field? o How to break free of Pivot Tables? o How to use Power Pivot without opening Power Pivot? o How to connect tables without using VLOOKUP()?

Last, the course explores best practices in building a dashboard. They include: o Do follow data table naming convention o Do fix changing column width o Do keep column/bar charts sorted o Do add a heat map for pivot tables

Course Search Keywords

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Pivot chart
  • Slicer
  • Timeline
  • Power Pivot
  • Power Query
  • Data model
  • Outline form
  • Calculated fields
  • Calculated item
  • Auto Refresh
  • VBA
  • Macro

Course Content

2 activities • 1 videos • duration: 1h

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Advanced Pivot Table-Part11 videos • 1 quiz • 1 hour
  • videocamAdvanced Pivot Table
    Duration 60:10
  • quizReview Questions
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Advanced Pivot Table-Part21 quiz

Your Instructor

Lenny Wu

Financial Reporting Expert

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Lenny is Senior Financial Analyst at Ausenco. Lenny has over 15 years combined experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), financial reporting and modeling, and compliance auditing. Lenny supervises Adaptive Insights system budgeting, and is a CPA, CGA, and a Certified Adaptive Insights Professional and Certified Xero Partner. Lenny is a proponent for "One-click Reporting" for analysts and "Self-service Reporting" for executives. He has strong belief that reporting and closing should be hours rather than days or even weeks. Lenny also acted as local CPA chapter board officer and volunteered for Canada Revenue Agency as a Community Volunteer Income Tax Program consultant. Education MBA, Finance : George Washington University - SBPM (School of Business and Public Management) - [1998 to 2000]

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.6 out of 5
Student's Choice
108 reviews
  • DA
    David A.
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    Great tips on creating a dashboard

  • NS
    Nell S.
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    Great webinar. Many useful tips and tricks. Easy to understand.

  • RP
    Rose P.
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    Excellent course.

  • JP
    Jing P.
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    Very good!

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