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When you're dealing with ample amounts of data and calculations, Excel can prove to be an essential tool for increasing your productivity by allowing workers to be more efficient. If you have a more profound knowledge of MS Excel, you'd be able to use some complex tools that help you to finish your job and analyze your data more rapidly.

Excel has presently included new information analysis tools and visualization tools that make spotting trends, analyze data, and access data more accessible than ever. 

Recent IPO of Zomato has been the centre of attraction for many investors in India and globally. It marks the beginning of many tech IPOs lined up in the country. Given the huge liquidity surplus in the financial markets, it is indeed an opportune time for companies to get listed at great valuation and provide liquidity to existing investors as well as get a wider participation from retail investors.

In MS PowerPoint, custom animation is considered to be a very useful feature. You can make your presentations look more attractive to your audience by adding interaction to your slides with the help of animation. You can animate almost every element such as photos, texts, fonts, audios, and videos.

All organisations rely on finance for their survival. The Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance seeks to provide expertise on the acquisition and allotment of a company's financial resources, as well as its control and management. MBA in Finance provides candidates with a wide range of opportunities, whether they are new to the financial world or even when they have prior experience as well.

"Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing", said Warren Buffet who's the world's most prosperous investor. Investment is mastery and a skill that should be acquired by everyone as soon as they can. 

Financial Statement analysis is a process of examining a company’s value or performance by analyzing company’s finance statements, i.e., balance sheet, income statement and cash flows. 

Excel is the most frequently used data analysis tool worldwide. As such mastering it is critical to undertake any useful analysis for work purposes. There are a number of very useful TEXT functions in Excel that can make very powerful analysis in any dataset.

In Excel, we often have multiple dimensional dataset wherein there are more than 1 attribute of the data and corresponding to it, we have certain numerical values.

A resume is a summary of your work experience, skills, and education. Although the words resume and curriculum vitae or CV are used interchangeably, but CV is a more comprehensive term. A CV is a detailed bio of your career, ranging from your education, work, skills and experience without the restriction of length. But a resume is a precise version of those experiences and skills, and typically should cover 10 years’ of one’s major employment duration. 

It’s 10pm at night. I have had my dinner. Had a very very tiring day in office, feeling sleepy. Need to take up the lectures of my course. No, not feeling like to study, too dull. But, let me check out the social media handles for 10 minutes before going off to bed. It’s 12 am at night. Oh gosh!, its late. I am no moresleepy, can’t sleep now.

Since its invention, email has managed to gain prominence and importance in both our personal and professional life. More candid, email is considered to be a most important mode of formal communication in the business topography. In words of American music maestro David Newman, ‘Email has ability, many channels don’t, creating valuable personal touches at scale.’

A waterfall chart is a great way to show variance analysis from one point to the other. These charts help easily visualize the drivers which are responsible for the change. For Example. how the profit or revenue of a company grew from one period to the other.

All of us use Microsoft Excel for one thing or the other.

We spend so much time looking at rows and rows of data. However, browsing through data, navigating between sheets or even basic formatting can be very time consuming.

So how about, we look at some simple yet powerful Excel keyboard shortcuts that can perform these actions at the press of a key!

XLOOKUP is a function which is newly introduced function in MS Office 365. It can be used in place of VLOOKUP as well as HLOOKUP, Index, Match and much more.

The range of technologies that a good data analyst must be familiar with is huge. It spans myriad tools, platforms, hardware and software.

There are both basic and advanced data analysis and visualization tools. See below for a list of such tools.

Using Excel short cuts help work much faster and improve efficiency. Here is a list of 100+ keyboard shortcuts for commonly used functions. Practicing these short cuts would help you to memorize them, thus improving the productivity drastically while working on complex data analysis or financial models.