Excel Skills for Business: Advanced
Macquarie University · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Nicky Bull, Professor Yvonne Breyer, Assoc Prof Prashan S. M. Karunaratne
BusinessData Science
About the course
This advanced Excel course is designed for business professionals, data analysts, and financial analysts seeking to master complex spreadsheet software for data-driven decision-making. Building on foundational Excel skills, this program will transform you into a power user, enhancing your employability and positioning you ahead in a rapidly evolving digital job market. (Source: World Economic Forum 2023 Future of Jobs Report). By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Master advanced Ex
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (60 votes, 1.0★).
“The one star rating is not about the curriculum, it's about the instructors. I feel that they just winged this course. While the beginner and intermediate one courses were very thorough, with plenty of opportunities to practice the material, this course just skims over the concepts. The course videos can be summarized by the student watching the instructor complete his/her spreadsheet. At no point do they spend time to explain the underlying logic behind their choices and the functions they're using...which means that I end up unable to use the formulas in a different context from that of the lectures (and leads me to waste 3 hours of my life per exam trying to figure out everything on my own).”
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