Course Overview

Financial and Statistical Functions equips you with the knowledge and skills to perform advanced financial and statistical analysis using Excel’s 365 powerful tools. In this learning experience, you will explore functions and features that help you manage loans, calculate depreciation, forecast trends, and analyze data distributions accurately and confidently.  

You will work with financial functions such as PMT, IPMT, PPMT, and SLN to estimate loan payments, track interest, and calculate straight-line depreciation. Statistical tools like NORM.DIST and NORM.INV will allow you to evaluate data patterns and determine probability-based insights. The course also covers advanced features, including the Solver tool for optimizing financial decisions and LINEST for conducting linear regression.

Practical examples and guided exercises will help you calculate net worth, project savings, and build forecasts for sales, budgets, or inventory. You’ll also gain hands-on experience applying forecasting functions like FORECAST.LINEAR and the Forecast Sheet Wizard to real-world scenarios.

By the end, you will be able to break down complex financial calculations, improve forecasting accuracy, and strengthen your decision-making process, which will be valuable skills for professional projects and personal financial planning.

Learning Objectives:

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Understand Excel's financial and statistical functions.
• Project future savings using the FV function in Excel.
• Calculate loan payments using PMT, IPMT, and PPMT functions.
• Compute straight-line depreciation using the SLN function.
• Apply forecasting tools to predict future values from data.
• Use NORM.DIST and NORM.INV for statistical analysis.
• Solve complex financial problems with Excel's Solver Tool.
• Analyze data using standard deviation and quartiles.
• Perform linear regression analysis with the LINEST function.