Financial Analysis: Analyzing the Top Line with Excel

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Free Online Course: Financial Analysis: Analyzing the Top Line with Excel provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Financial Analysis: Analyzing the Top Line with Excel is taught by Rudolph Rosenberg.

Overview
  • Learn how to analyze the top line (aka revenue) for your company and identify areas of under- or overperformance with Excel.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • What you need to know
    • Using the exercise files
    1. Preparing Your Revenue Information
    • The basics of revenue analysis
    • Finding the data points
    • Assembling the data
    • Preparing the data
    • Introducing PivotTables and SUMIF
    • Using the SUMIF function
    • Using PivotTables
    • Adding consolidation levels
    2. Past Performance
    • Past performance and seasonality
    • Comparing to past performance
    3. Customer Information
    • Analyzing customer information
    • Identifying current customers
    • Determining revenue per customer
    • New vs. returning customers
    4. Product Information
    • Analyzing product information
    • Determining revenue per product
    • Determining upsell opportunities
    5. Exceptional Revenue
    • Identifying recurrent vs. one-off business
    • Isolating recurrent vs. one-off business
    • Analyzing recurrent vs. one-off business
    6. Other Considerations
    • Identifying dependencies
    • Analyzing further revenue with key performance indicators (KPIs)
    Conclusion
    • Next steps