Advanced Excel and Business Reporting Course in Doha, Qatar

The Advanced Excel and Business Reporting course in Doha, Qatar is built for people who already use Microsoft Excel every day and now need to produce accurate, repeatable reports from large or messy data. It goes well beyond the general Excel course, focusing on how analysts clean source data, model it, summarize it and present it to managers. Participants learn to replace manual copy-and-paste routines with connected workbooks that refresh in seconds when new data arrives.

Training is hands-on throughout. Each topic is practiced on realistic sales, finance, HR and operations datasets, and participants finish by building a complete monthly reporting pack with a dashboard. The trainer explains not only which feature to use but why, so learners can choose between formulas, PivotTables and Power Query with confidence. The course is available as public classroom sessions, live online, or as an in-house program for organizations that want exercises based on their own reports and systems.

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

• Import, clean and combine data from multiple files and folders using Power Query

• Build a data model with relationships and write core DAX measures in Power Pivot

• Analyze large datasets with PivotTables, slicers, timelines and calculated fields

• Apply XLOOKUP, FILTER, SORT, UNIQUE and LET to create dynamic, formula-driven reports

• Design clear interactive dashboards with charts, conditional formatting and KPI indicators

• Automate recurring reports so they refresh with minimal manual effort

• Check workbooks for errors and protect them before sharing with stakeholders

This course suits experienced Excel users whose roles depend on turning raw data into management reports.

• Financial and management accountants

• Business, sales and operations analysts

• HR and payroll reporting specialists

• Project control and planning staff

• MIS and reporting officers

• Managers who build or review KPI reports

Module 1: Modern Formulas and Dynamic Arrays

• XLOOKUP and XMATCH versus VLOOKUP and INDEX-MATCH

• Dynamic array functions: FILTER, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE

• Using LET and named ranges for readable formulas

• Excel Tables and structured references for growing data

Module 2: Getting and Transforming Data with Power Query

• Connecting to workbooks, CSV files, folders and databases

• Cleaning data: splitting, trimming, replacing and changing types

• Unpivoting, merging and appending queries

• Parameters and refreshing queries on new data

Module 3: The Data Model and Power Pivot

• Fact and dimension tables and star schema basics

• Creating relationships between tables

• Writing DAX measures with SUM, CALCULATE and DIVIDE

• Date tables and time intelligence calculations

Module 4: Advanced PivotTable Analysis

• PivotTables built from the data model

• Grouping, show values as and calculated fields

• Slicers and timelines connected to several reports

• GETPIVOTDATA and CUBE functions for custom layouts

Module 5: Dashboards and Data Visualization

• Choosing the right chart for each business question

• Combo charts, sparklines and dynamic chart titles

• Conditional formatting, icon sets and KPI indicators

• Dashboard layout, navigation and print settings

Module 6: Report Automation and Quality Control

• Building a refreshable monthly reporting pack

• Recording simple macros for repetitive formatting tasks

• Error checking, formula auditing and data validation

• Protecting, sharing and co-authoring workbooks in Microsoft 365

Organizations across Qatar, from energy and construction to banking, government and healthcare, rely on regular management reports to track budgets, projects and performance. Much of this reporting still lives in Excel, and staff who can automate it free up time for analysis rather than data entry. Building these data skills supports the knowledge-based economy and human-development goals set out in Qatar National Vision 2030, and helps teams give decision makers timely, trustworthy figures.

Join a scheduled class at our training center in Doha or attend live online. For organizations, the course can run as an in-house program at your premises or online, tailored to your sector, examples and schedule.