Publication date : 10/24/2025

Course : Excel, reporting and dashboards

optional remote TOSA® certification

Practical course - 3d - 21h00 - Ref. ERR
Price : 1150 € E.T.

Excel, reporting and dashboards

optional remote TOSA® certification


Required course

This training course will teach you how to model your reporting and dashboards in Excel. It covers importing, querying and linking external data, as well as creating interactive charts.


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Practical course in person or remote class
Available in English on request

Ref. ERR
  3d - 21h00
1150 € E.T.
En option :
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Certification : 80 € HT




This training course will teach you how to model your reporting and dashboards in Excel. It covers importing, querying and linking external data, as well as creating interactive charts.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Select and prepare data for analysis
Implement techniques for cross-referencing several data tables
Use Excel's conditional and advanced functions
Create reporting based on pivot tables and segments
Use powerful graphics

Intended audience
Anyone wishing to analyze data efficiently.

Prerequisites
Good knowledge of Excel.

Practical details
Hands-on work
Discussions, experience sharing, demonstrations, tutorials and case studies.
Teaching methods
Active pedagogy based on examples, demonstrations, experience sharing, case studies and assessment of learning throughout the course.

Course schedule

1
Working with external data

  • Import, retrieve and transform external data.
  • Discover PowerQuery.
  • Combine and merge queries.
  • Consolidate multiple tables.
Hands-on work
Import or connect data in Excel. Use queries.

2
Working with pivot tables

  • Choose the axes of analysis and the calculations to be performed (deviations, progression or calculated elements).
  • Create chronological groupings and value ranges.
  • Create a DCT based on several ranges of data.
  • Connect several TCDs with segments.
Hands-on work
Use DCTs to extract and analyze key elements in a database.

3
Structuring an analysis workbook

  • Organize tabs by task: data, settings, documentation...
  • Standardize formatting and colors.
  • Create dynamic named ranges and validation lists.
  • Use conditional formatting, icon sets and indicators.
Demonstration
Demonstration of several reporting tables and dashboards.

4
Using advanced functions

  • Practice conditional functions.
  • Master statistical functions.
  • Complete data in one table with data from another table.
  • Improve recalculation times for large volumes of data.
Hands-on work
Build a report. Compare Year-To-Date results.

5
Understanding decision-support tools

  • Run simulations using the Scenario tool.
  • Quantify the factors involved in achieving an objective with Target/Solver.
  • Use the Forecast sheet (Excel 2016).
Hands-on work
Set up simulations. Use Target and Solver tools.

6
Graphical representation of data

  • Select the appropriate graphic.
  • Understand the advantages and disadvantages of pivot charts.
  • Learn about specific dashboard graphics: tachometer, thermometer, radar...
  • Create two-axis graphs, trend curves, waterfall graphs...
Hands-on work
Create an interactive graphic based on a drop-down list or segment.


Options
Certification : 80 € HT
TOSA® certification certifies the learner's skills on a 1,000-point scale for a period of 3 years. The TOSA® diploma is issued if the learner's score exceeds 351 points. The program targets advanced to expert levels (score from 726 to 1,000). Once the exam has been taken, learners can consult their results live, and receive an e-mail with a certificate, a detailed summary of their skills and their diploma within 5 days. The exam lasts 1 H 00 and consists of 35 exercises alternating between manipulations on the software and multiple-choice questions, the difficulty of which varies according to the learner's answers. Unless specifically requested, the course is given by default in French and on the most recent software version. Monitoring is carried out by software and recorded for compliance control purposes.
The certification option comes in the form of a voucher or invitation that will allow you to take the exam at the end of the training course.

Customer reviews
4,5 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
NASSERA B.
04/03/26
5 / 5

Formation très instructive qui va me permettre de mettre en pratique les bases de données.
MARIE G.
04/03/26
5 / 5

Il manque un suivi / récapitulatif de toutes les notions vues pendant le cours
OUALI FATIMA E.
04/03/26
5 / 5

Contenu très instructif et intéressant, formateur très sympathique et pédagogue



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