Best Way to Learn Excel?

latestgood
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:39:56 +0000

Jonahrubin,

Our model is primarily made up of:

VLOOKUP
Pivot Tables
Descriptive Statistics
VBA

and it’s a plus if know macro. Of course, there may be more, but many of our financial data is made up with an above items

It’s both, finance staff knows a lot of shortcuts and there are a lot of complicated formulas. To give you an example, when given a excel model, if I can duplicate a data in 20 minutes, financial analyst with one year experience can probably do it in 2-3 minutes.

You simply can not learn everything about excel. Just learn the basics and have a strong foundation; because if you do not, you can not keep up.