Power Query is the amazing new data cleansing tool in both Excel and Power BI Desktop. Do you find yourself performing the same data cleansing steps day after day? Power Query will make it faster to clean your data the first time. While Power Query is powerful, the interface is subtle--there are tools hiding in plain sight that are easy to miss. Go beyond the obvious and take Power Query to new levels with this book.

Data analysis expressions (DAX) is the formula language of Power BI. Learning the DAX language is key to empower Power BI users so they can take advantage of these new Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities. This third edition has been updated for the new Power BI Ribbon interface while still providing a bridge for readers wanting to learn DAX in the Power BI, Power Pivot, or Excel.

Microsoft PowerPivot is a free add-on to Excel from Microsoft that allows users to produce new kinds of reports and analyses that were simply impossible before, and this book is the first to tackle DAX formulas, the core capability of PowerPivot, from the perspective of the Excel audience. Written by the world's foremost PowerPivot blogger and practitioner, the book's concepts and approach are introduced in a step-by-step manner tailored to the learning style of Excel users everywhere. The techniques presented allow users to produce, in hours or even minutes, results that formerly would have taken entire teams weeks or months to produce. The pattern-like techniques and best practices contained in this book have been developed and refined over two years of onsite training with Excel users around the world, and the key lessons from those seminars costing thousands of dollars per day are now available within the pages of this easy-to-follow guide. This updated edition covers new features introduced with Office 2015.

This book is about Power Query and M Code.

This is a book about Microsoft 365 Excel, or Excel 365. With a new formula calculations engine and many new built-in functions, creating formula solutions and business models in Excel 365 is dramatically easier than at any time in the history of spreadsheets. In addition, with the new data tools like Power Query, Power Pivot, and Power BI, performing data analysis to make data driven decisions can be easily done on data with different structures, with different sources, and on small and big data alike. With this exciting new Excel 365 version, we will learn three types for formulas: Worksheet, M Code, and DAX, and we will learn three types of Reporting/Dashboarding tools: Standard PivotTables, Data Model PivotTables, and Power BI Visualizations. This means that the New Excel 365 is the only app that matters in our age of analytics and data driven decisions. Who is this book/class for? Everyone. The book starts at the beginning and moves to an advanced level by telling a logical story about how to use Excel to solve calculation-based problems and answer crucial questions.

The essential guide for getting started with Power BI.

Power BI is an amazing cloud-based business analytics service provided by Microsoft that allows people to transform data into rich, interactive visual reports that presents a 360-degree business view and improves business decision making. This book is designed to get the Excel analyst started with Power BI, touching on Power Query and Power Pivot.

RAISING ARRAYS FOR MODELLING This book tries hard to raze a laugh (yes, that's what was meant... ). Instead, through numerous examples and case studies, it details the impact of the ecosystem introduced by dynamic arrays in Excel, injecting life into the jaded, stale world of financial modelling. From comparing the old methodologies to the new frontiers, this book considers how dynamic arrays have reshaped Excel and made it Turing complete, with its liberal use of LET, LAMBDA, eta lambdas et al. LET invites complexity but reduces memory requirements, LAMBDA allows you to build anything, and dynamic arrays make it easy to quite literally extend your ideas and your way of thinking. See for yourself. Through a dynamic array of Best Practice tips, tricks, functions and features, Financial Modelling using Dynamic Arrays shows you how to revamp and reinvent your financial models with Excel 365. Recreate your development kit in this brave new world. Erase the old and embrace the arrays!

PROJECTING PROJECT FINANCE MODELLING. If you have a beginner's grasp in accounting, finance and Excel, you might be tempted to explore the quantitative, decision-centric world of Project Finance, ring-fencing funding for profitable projects. This book seeks to demystify the area and show how the basic principles of financial modelling, first heralded in An Introduction to Financial Modelling, may be applied and modified here. The book explains Project Finance and how it differs from project finance at the outset. It then provides various Excel pointers on Excel's key functions and features, before crafting together the salient points of Best Practice modelling. This book is practical: it provides numerous examples including a full case study showing how to model Project Finance, separating the concepts (and modelling) of construction and operations, including delivering a Cash Flow Waterfall, Sources and Uses of Funds, various valuation techniques, plus demonstrating how to create scenario, sensitivity and ratio analyses. A standalone tome where you need not have read the previous volumes, this book includes the usual humour too.

About the Book This book is a practical guide for business users who rely on Microsoft Power Query to clean and transform messy data. It explains how to go beyond the user interface by focusing on the M language behind Power Query. This is not a conventional textbook. Three key things set it apart: 1. It shows how to think and build solutions, not just how to use M functions. Readers can apply what they learn to their own data. 2. It includes practical, real-life examples from different industries, along with exercises at the end of each chapter to reinforce understanding. 3. It has plenty of illustrations and diagrams at each step so you can follow along even without being at your computer. The book starts with foundational concepts like working with lists, tables, and records, then covers advanced topics such as nested tables, iterations, custom functions, and common data cleaning patterns. Who Is This Book For? - You already know the clicks of Power Query, either in Excel or Power BI. - You already know how to create basic queries that can combine data, remove columns, filter, and unpivot rows. - You have come across a few data cleaning problems that make you wonder, How am I going to do that? Whether you're new to Power Query or already know the basics, this book will help you use this powerful data transformation tool more effectively.

A simple walk-through of the common perils and pitfalls of financial modelling, this book examines the most common and necessary Excel functions, emphasizes the importance of a standardized and functional layout, explains accounting concepts simply, and reinforces four key concepts of best practice: consistency, robustness, flexibility, and transparency--CraFT. With more than fifty examples and an extended case study, this hands-on book helps users work with Excel more efficiently and effectively. This simple methodology has been adopted by many seasoned professionals who no longer must resort to balancing figures, circulars, and macros.

Bill Jelen, MrExcel and Oz du Soleil of Excel on Fire, two of the leading Excel channels on YouTube, joined forces to write a unique book to help you get the most from Excel and combat bad data. Guerrilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel: Excel Skirmishes and Conquering Crap Data Third Ed. goes beyond Excel tips & tricks and includes real world warnings and case studies. When asked about the motivation for this book, Oz replied: this is for the person who's been thrown into the fire with Excel and data. They may not have a background for this work but they still have to perform because the world doesn't wait for you to graduate from beginner to intermediate and then to advanced. No. You have to perform and deliver. In other words, GDA3 is a survival guide whether you're new to Excel or a longtime professional who needs a reference guide. The book is light and quick, giving you bite-sized lessons, but going deep on critical topics like pivot tables and Power Query.

This book is aimed at those who wish to advance their knowledge and expertise in financial modelling by addressing common problems that occur day to day in the world of business/decision analyses, forecasting, and valuations. Building on the sister book, An Introduction to Financial Modelling, this book begins where the other ends considering typical issues and traps in cashflow forecasting, inventory modelling, depreciation calculations, debt sculpting, rolling budgets and charts, and valuation construction, to name just a few relevant topics.

Excel tips to skyrocket white-collar productivity.

Originally designed for Bill Jelen's live Power Excel seminars, the target audience already uses Excel 40 hours a week. These tips are the aha tips that uncover secret methods in Excel. The book covers general Excel functions, pivot tables, and formulas such as VLOOKUP and the new XLOOKUP. It introduces elements of modern Excel such as the Power Pivot Data Model and cleaning data with Power Query. Updated annually, this edition for 2021 adds information on LET and LAMBDA functions, amazing new data types, dynamic array formulas, and more.

Neither an expos of the dark underbelly of wrestling nor a justification of its existence, Red Headed Geek is a loving, firsthand look inside the regional wrestling circuits of yesteryear by a former manager who's been tossed from the ring, bashed with a folding chair, and had painfully honest conversations with the wrestlers themselves. Billy C. Wirtz gives a distinct view of the strange world of wrestling, offering a look into the actual workings of the business and the underlying reasons for its popularity, as well as an explanation for its status as an often maligned and misunderstood subculture and its vital role in American working-class entertainment. He recounts his painful on-the-job training--explaining certain practices and dispelling some commonly held myths and beliefs--and discusses his personal and professional relationships with wrestlers such as the Fabulous Moolah, Diamond Lil, Sir Oliver Humperdink, and dozens of others, from the legendary to the never-heard-ofs. The book also contains a glossary of wrestling slang for those who aren't as familiar with the sport. For the die-hard fan or the total nonbeliever, this book presents one man's honest perspective and observations on a fascinating subculture.

This enthusiastic introduction provides support for Excel beginners and focuses on using the program immediately for maximum efficiency. With 1,104 screenshots and explicit information on everything from rows, columns, and cells to subtotaling, sorting, and pivot tables, this guide aims to alleviate the frustrations that come with using the program for the first time. This manual offers strategies for avoiding problems and streamlining efficiency and assists readers from start to finish, turning Excel 2010 novices into experts.

Updating the previous edition's tips to include features in Office 365 and Excel 2019, this new edition of MrExcel's popular software guide even incorporates suggestions sent in by readers. Each featured topic has a problem statement and description, followed by a broad strategy for solving the problem. MrExcel then walks readers through the specific steps to solve the issue. Alternate strategies are also provided, along with common scenarios that trip up users, leaving readers with not only answers to their specific dilemmas but also new and quicker ways to use formulas and spreadsheets.

Covering a variety of Excel simulations, from gambling to genetics, this introduction is for people interested in modeling future events, without the cost of an expensive textbook. The simulations covered offer a fun alternative to the usual Excel topics and include situations such as roulette, password cracking, sex determination, population growth, and traffic patterns, among many others.

Microsoft's revolutionary Power Pivot is a tool that allows users to create and transform data into reports and dashboards in new and much more powerful ways using the most-used analytical tool in the world: Excel.

This book, written by a member of Microsoft's Power Pivot team, provides a practical step by step guide on creating a financial dashboard. The book covers in detail how to combine and shape the relevant data, build the dashboard in Excel, providing layout and design tips and tricks, prepare the model to work with fiscal dates, and show values used in many financial reports, including year-to-date, variance-to-target, percentage-of-total, and running totals reports.

Accessibly written, this book offers readers a practical, real-world scenario and can be used as a day-to-day reference. Though the guide focuses on Power Pivot for Excel 2010, a chapter that discusses Power View--compatible with Excel 2013-- and Power BI is also included.

Are you tired of tracking financial elements of your business manually, do you have to prepare staffing schedules by hand, or do you simply want to know how to get more information from your business data? Learn how to harness your business data and put it to use for you.

Learn the basics of Excel, including a comprehensive review of every tab of the Excel Ribbon. See how to best display your data for maximum impact with formatting tools, Data Tables, Charts & Pivot Tables. Use customer information to create customized letters with Mail Merge. Import data using Power Query. Calculate the costs of doing business with financial formulas, learn where to find pre-packaged business templates, and much more. This book uses real-world business examples in operation with all these elements.

Just like a shovel, this book is genuinely ground-breaking. It hits you over the head with the proverbial gardening tool, implementing the way forward for financial modelling. Many working in banking and finance create their financial models in Excel and then import them into Power BI for graphical interpretation and further analysis. Not on our watch. We're going to jettison the universal spreadsheet and build the entire model in Power BI. We can't stress how far off the range we're taking the horses. If you are reading this, you are a true pioneer. Some have managed to build the odd financial statement in Power BI, but all three? This is where you can gain a major advantage in the workplace. If you build the calculations for financial statements in Power BI, you can produce statements by product, by customer, by geography... Get the picture? The limitation will be restricted to the granularity of the underlying data and your imagination. This book unearths some of the tricks, measures, logic and tools needed to build the model (there is no need to bury your mistakes). We just can't promise you a rose garden... With the usual jokes in spades, it's just a shame we couldn't get Doug (get it?) to assist.