Advanced Excel & AI-Powered Excel
Excel remains the most widely used analytical tool in Indian business, and most graduates use perhaps five per cent of it. This course takes a student from formulas to modelling, automation and AI-assisted analysis — the single highest-return skill for a commerce or management graduate, and still the tool most first jobs are actually done in.
Enrolment is through our partner colleges. You will need the code your college issued.
- Course
- DATA-003
- Topic
- Data & Analytics
- Modules
- 14
- Levels
- Foundation → Applied → Advanced
How this is shaped for your students
Spreadsheet ability varies more inside a single classroom than almost any other skill we teach, so we start by finding out where the group actually is. We take account of the degree and year, current confidence with formulas and data, cohort size, the roles students are aiming at, the employers hiring in your region, whether students are open to relocating, the hours available and where this sits in your placement calendar. The programme is then set at a level that neither bores the capable students nor loses the rest.
Who this is for
- Strong fit
- B.Com, BBA, BBM, BMS, B.Sc, BCA, MBA
- Also suitable
- all engineering, pharmacy, allied health
- Before you start
- Basic familiarity with a spreadsheet
What the course covers
Foundation5 modules
- 01Structure and disciplineworkbook design, named ranges, absolute and relative references, why other people's spreadsheets break
- 02Core formulaslogical functions, text functions, date handling, error trapping, nesting without becoming unreadable
- 03LookupsXLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, why VLOOKUP still appears in interviews, multi-criteria lookups
- 04Data handlingsorting, filtering, conditional formatting, data validation, removing duplicates safely, Text to Columns
- 05PivotTablesbuilding, grouping, calculated fields, slicers, and the pivot that quietly excludes rows
Applied5 modules
- 01Dynamic arraysFILTER, SORT, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE, spill behaviour, replacing helper columns
- 02Power Queryimporting, transforming, appending and merging, refreshable pipelines, cleaning without touching the source
- 03Financial and statistical functionsNPV, IRR, PMT, forecasting, descriptive statistics, Goal Seek and Solver
- 04Dashboards in Excelchart selection, dynamic ranges, form controls, layout, a dashboard that survives new data
- 05Modelling basicsassumptions separated from calculation, scenario tables, sensitivity, auditing a model you did not build
Advanced4 modules
- 01Power Pivot and the data modelrelationships, DAX fundamentals, measures versus calculated columns, handling volumes Excel used to choke on
- 02Automationmacros, VBA fundamentals, Office Scripts, deciding between VBA and Power Query
- 03Copilot in Excel with verificationnatural-language analysis, formula generation and explanation, and the systematic check that catches the confidently wrong result
- 04Professional practiceversion control, documentation, error checking, protecting a model, handing a workbook to someone else
Three levels, one continuous path
Foundation
You start from working vocabulary and first-hand contact with the tools. If you have never opened them before, you can start here. The work is guided, and you are assessed on knowing the material and applying it simply.
Applied
You turn knowledge into a way of working. You are given a brief with real constraints and incomplete information, you make decisions, and you explain why you made them. This is the level at which most students become useful on an internship.
Advanced
You handle the messy version: conflicting requirements, scale, cost, things going wrong, other people’s opinions, and knowing when not to do the obvious thing. The work is portfolio quality and you have to defend it.
Work you can show an employer
1Foundation
clean and analyse a messy 5,000-row dataset and produce a summary with PivotTables.
Capstone
Operating Model for a Small Business. A complete workbook — data intake, cleaning pipeline, model, dashboard and documentation — built for a real or clearly simulated business, handed to a non-technical user who must be able to run it, with a written user guide.
Tools you will use
Essential
- Microsoft Excel (Microsoft 365)
- Power Query
- PivotTables
Recommended
- Copilot in Excel
- Google Sheets
- Power Pivot
Advanced
- VBA
- Office Scripts
- Power BI as the next step
Jobs this points at
Roles this course is relevant to
MIS Executive · Accounts Executive · Business Operations Associate · Financial Analyst (junior) · Data Entry and Reporting Analyst · Sales Operations Associate.
What you can do when you finish
- Build a refreshable Power Query pipeline from multiple sources
- construct a scenario model with separated assumptions
- build a dynamic Excel dashboard
- write DAX measures against a data model
- verify AI-generated formulas and analysis before relying on them
Length and delivery
| Option | Typically used for | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| 30 hours | Value Added Course, or a single-semester elective | All of Foundation |
| 45 hours | Skill Enhancement Course | Foundation, plus selected Applied modules |
| 60 hours | Standard cohort | Foundation, Applied, and the Applied project |
| 90 hours | Two semesters, or intensive | All three levels, plus the Advanced project |
| 120 hours | Full pathway | All three levels, capstone, and placement preparation |
The final option is agreed with your college during programme design.
Bring this course to your college
Enrolment is through our partner colleges. You will need the code your college issued.