New
15DIY4: Do-It-Yourself Business Intelligence
If you have questions about this event, please call us at 952-831-2707.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
1:00pm - 4:30pm Central Time
4 CPE (4 technical)
Minnesota Society of CPAs, Bloomington
Perhaps no term receives more coverage in business circles today than "business intelligence" (BI). With Microsoft's new Power BI tools, you can create powerful, interactive and visually compelling summaries of vast quantities of data directly from your computer -- without help from your technology team. Discover how to use these BI tools to quickly and easily create reports and dashboards, and solve the financial and operational reporting issues you face each day. Leverage your existing Excel knowledge to harness the power of BI tools that will give you the insights you need to make more informed, effective and profitable decisions. Find out if this class is right for you. Take the online assessment.
Major subjects
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How to link data from external data sources into BI reports and dashboards
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Power Query -- how to extract financial and operational data from multiple data sources
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Power Pivot -- how to summarize data, including data found in the Data Model feature of Excel 2013
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Power Map and Power View -- how to prepare stunning, interactive data visualizations
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How to share your BI reports and collaborate with others using tools such as Power BI Sites
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How to use Power BI's Q&A feature to ask natural language questions of your reports and dashboards
Learning objective(s)
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Understand how to use Microsoft Power BI tools to analyze data, create reports and make smarter business decisions
Who should take this program?
CPAs, accountants and financial professionals in industry and public practice
Fees
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$229.00
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$199.00
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