Key Principles for Planning and Designing Dynamic Excel Files

October 13, 2014 | 09:00 - October 13, 2014 | 18:00
Vacoas-Phoenix, 1st Floor, The Hub, Industrial Zone, Phoenix, Mauritius
Organized by: Nuclei
Contacts: (230) 601 28 28
This course is designed to enable you to develop good Microsoft Excel Model. Modelling is an essential skill for Ms Excel Users. Unfortunately, Excel users follow time-consuming trial and error approaches to modelling and end up with models that are not sufficiently flexible and powerful. This course presents a comprehensive approach for developing simple to sophisticated models.

Duration: 6 hours

Level: All levels

Target Audience: Personnel at all levels/IT Administrators

Prerequisite: Participants should have a basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel

Course Outline

Part 1 – Introduction to Modelling

  • What is Modelling?
  • My assumptions about you and users of your model
  • Excel and VBA as Modelling Tools
  • Independent and Dependent Variables

Part 2 – How to Build Good Excel Models

  • Steps in creating a model
  • Attributes of a Good Excel Model
  • Common ways to document a model
  • Debugging Excel Model
  • Errors you will have to find yourself

Part 3 – Practicals

  • Steps and Attributes of a Model
  • Types of Errors
  • Designing a Model for a Dance Competition