Surgent's Data Analytics Readiness Series: Data Preparation Using Get and Transform - On-Demand Webcast

Overview

In this one-hour course, users will learn to apply Power Query to extract, transform, and load data for analysis. Users will learn how to manipulate data once it is loaded into the platform and will practice the manipulation during the course. Using the same data as the instructor, users will perform an exercise to clean and transform a basic general ledger with an emphasis on preparing the data for analysis.

This course is one in a ten-part certification series, Core Data Analytics: Excel and Power BI Skills for Accounting and Finance Professionals, by Surgent IQ.

Highlights

An ETL tool- Extract Transform and Load
How Power Query ups your game in data analytics
Interface components of Power Query
Column level and table actions
Power Query is a sequential macro recorder
What is M Code?
Exercise- cleaning and transforming a general ledger

Prerequisites

2+ years of experience working with Excel

Designed For

Accountants who want to transition to data analysis and have a basic knowledge of Excel and Excel formulas

Objectives

Understand the applicable Excel skills that will be required in making the transition to data analyst
Apply Power Query to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data
Understand and apply the basics of data cleaning
Understand what M Code is and how it is used
Apply ETL processes to a dataset