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Dynamic Business Reports and Dashboards Using Excel

Why Attend

Business professionals are frequently required to prepare management reports, scorecards, and dashboards. Attending this course will help you reach advanced Excel levels, allowing you to produce such essential reports. The course begins with pivot tables, the most important tool ever created for data reporting, analysis, and reconciliation. It then proceeds with high-level modeling techniques, integration, and report visualization, concluding with automation. Your take-away is guaranteed to add value to your daily and periodic tasks. This course is a must for every intermediate-level Excel user.

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Course Methodology

This course uses MS Excel as a powerful tool to design and prepare dynamic business reports, dashboards, and scorecards. Groups and individuals will be required to complete exercises, case studies, and projects daily.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Use Excel to create interactive dashboards using PivotTables, Slicers, and dynamic PowerPoint integration
Apply advanced data validation techniques, including dependent drop-downs and error handling
Design impactful visualizations like dynamic labels, sparklines, and KPI charts
Build smart reports using form controls such as combo boxes, spinners, and checkboxes
Automate data import and transformation using Power Query across multiple sources

Target Audience

Business professionals, accountants, finance analysts, senior and junior accountants, business analysts, accounting and finance professionals, research professionals, marketing and sales professionals, administrative staff, supervisors, and general staff from any function who need to learn and apply state-of-the-art techniques to their daily business reporting, reconciliations, and analysis.

Target Competencies

Reporting, analyzing, and reconciling
Data modeling
Integration with external data sources
Report structuring techniques
Charting and visualization techniques

Note

This is a hands-on training course using laptops, which will be made available by Meirc Training & Consulting for courses held in the UAE. For courses outside the UAE, participants are required to bring their own laptops with a fully functioning version of Microsoft Excel (Office 365, Excel 2021 or higher).

Core Reporting and Dashboarding Skills
- Mastering pivot tables and pivot charts: Rules, use cases, and common pitfalls
- Slicer techniques for clean interactivity
- Building dynamic dashboards that drive insight
- Integrating smart, interactive elements (drop-downs, buttons, and linked visuals)
- Seamless dashboard transfer to PowerPoint: Dynamic linkage and storytelling tips
Advanced Data Structuring for Impactful Analysis
- Advanced data validation: Custom logic, list rules, and user-proofing techniques
- Designing smart conditional formatting for quick data interpretation
- Mastering XLOOKUP and its strategic advantages over legacy functions
- Building dependent drop-down lists for guided data entry
- Error handling: IFERROR, ISERROR, and smart mitigation strategies
Data Visualization and Charting Techniques
- Dynamic data labels: Automated updates and context-driven commentary
- Formula-driven visualizations for flexible storytelling
- Leveraging modern fonts and formatting for executive aesthetics
- Sparklines: In-cell trends and micro-visualization
- Thermometer charts: Goal vs. actual performance visualization
- Performance bands and conditional chart ranges
Report Modeling with Interactive Controls
- Structuring reports with purpose: From raw data to decision-ready output
- Combo boxes, list boxes, and spinners: Creating user-controlled models
- Option buttons and checkboxes for customizable reporting interfaces
- Scenario modeling and “What-If” analysis using form controls
Power Query for Seamless Data Integration
- Importing from multiple sources (TXT, CSV, Excel, PDF) with minimal cleanup
- Appending and merging queries for consolidated analysis
- Customizing query properties for refresh, load, and connection control
- Preparing data structures for pivot-ready analysis
- Introduction to data transformation and shaping best practices

National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA)

Meirc Training & Consulting is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org

Field of Study : Finance

Prerequisites : None

Advanced Preparation : None

Delivery Method : Group Live

Number of CPE credits : 25

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2025 Schedule & Fees

There are no public sessions remaining for the course this year. Please contact us if you wish to have a customized in-house session, or to find out how an additional public session can be scheduled.

2026 Schedule & Fees

Per participant

12 - 16 Jul, 2026
Arabic
Dubai
Venue to be assigned

Per participant

1 - 5 Nov, 2026
English
Dubai
Venue to be assigned

This course is also offered in Virtual Learning, click on the course below.

Dynamic Business Reports and Dashboards Using Excel - Virtual Learning

12 - 16 Jul, 2026

Arabic

Virtual Learning

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