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Analytical Tools For Managers II Syllabus

This document outlines the course objectives and units for an "Analytical Tools for Managers II" course. The course aims to teach advanced Excel functions and their application to managerial purposes. It covers topics like what-if analysis, root cause analysis, pivot tables, VBA macros, business analytics, and lookup functions. The five units include lessons on scenario analysis, pivot tables, VBA programming, descriptive analytics using Excel and SPSS, and various lookup functions and their use through examples. The overall goal is to help students understand and apply analytical tools in Excel to solve business problems.

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Analytical Tools For Managers II Syllabus

This document outlines the course objectives and units for an "Analytical Tools for Managers II" course. The course aims to teach advanced Excel functions and their application to managerial purposes. It covers topics like what-if analysis, root cause analysis, pivot tables, VBA macros, business analytics, and lookup functions. The five units include lessons on scenario analysis, pivot tables, VBA programming, descriptive analytics using Excel and SPSS, and various lookup functions and their use through examples. The overall goal is to help students understand and apply analytical tools in Excel to solve business problems.

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Analytical Tools for Managers II

Course Objectives:
● To understand the concept of advanced Excel
● To relate to the use of various functions in Excel
● To understand various Financial Functions
● To illustrate creation of Pivot tables in relevance to managerial purposes

Ref No. Unit 1 - What-If Analysis


1 ● Understanding What-If Analysis using examples
● Create Different Scenarios
● Goal Seek
● Data Table
○ One Variable Data Table
○ Two Variable Data Table
Concepts to be covered: 5 Why Analysis
Video Tutorial: The 5 Whys Explained - Root Cause Analysis

● Discussion: Understand the Root Cause Analysis


● Activity: Scenario based case studies (probability, goal & results) – Situations
like work not done on time, Escalations not handled well, etc,
Debrief: Understanding the importance Root Cause Analysis
Unit 2- Introduction to Pivot Table

2 ● Understanding Pivot Table


● Inserting a Pivot Table
● Elements in a Pivot Table
● Creating a PivotTable from a Data Range
● Building a PivotTable Report
● Creating Pivot Charts
● Grouping in Pivot Table
● Dashboards using PIVOT Table /Slicer/Timeline
● Advanced Features and Customization of Pivot table

Unit 3- VBA Macro


3  Recording a Macro
 Procedure and functions in VBA
 Variables in VBA
 Variable data types
 Else-if statement
 Defining select case statement
 Merge worksheet into macro
 merge multiple excel files into one sheet
 Split worksheet using VBA filters.

Unit 4-Introduction to Business Analytics

4 Concept of Business Analytics- Meaning, types and application of Business


Analytics, Use of Spread
Sheet to Analyze data-Descriptive analytics, Application of Excel and SPSS in
Analytics, Excel Solver,
Solving ANOVA, correlation and regression numerical through Excel and
SPSS.

Unit 5:- Introduction to Lookup Functions


5 ● Understanding Lookup Functions
● CHOOSE Function
● Understanding of CHOOSE by using various examples
● VLOOKUP
● Understanding of VLOOKUP by using various examples
● Using VLOOKUP for Exact Matches
● HLOOKUP
● Understanding of HLOOKUP by using various examples
● VLOOKUP special conditions and Variations
● INDEX and MATCH Function
● Understanding of INDEX and MATCH by using various examples
● Introduction to XLOOKUP

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