Webcast: Excel-Based Dashboards

Dashboard reporting is rapidly becoming the norm for organizations seeking to improve financial and operational reporting processes. Dashboards allow report recipients to easily access mission-critical data, usually in an on-demand environment, thereby allowing users to get the information they need when they need it. With greatly enhanced charting and graphing capabilities, along with the ability to handle much larger volumes of data, Excel is an ideal tool for creating high-impact dashboards in businesses of all sizes.  In this course, you'll learn how to build Excel-based dashboards that extract information from your accounting application, along with other databases, and review how to present this data as actionable information in a dashboard setting.  Key topics covered include extracting and summarizing data stored in various databases; charting and graphing data, including specialized charts and graphs, such as tachometer gauges and thermometer charts; identifying and highlighting data trend; distributing dashboard reports throughout the organization and using Excel add-ins, such as Xcelsius and BizExcelerator to enhance the dashboard reporting process.  Don't miss this chance to learn how to create and implement Excel-based dashboard reports as a means of improving your organization's financial and operational reporting processes.