Data Analytics Module – Financial Domain Focus (8Hr)
Tools Covered: Excel, SQL, Power BI
Target Audience: Finance professionals, data analysts, and students
Goal: Equip learners with practical analytics skills applied to financial datasets using Excel,
SQL, and Power BI.
Session 1: Excel for Financial Analysis (3 Hours)
Objective: Learn to clean, analyze, and summarize financial data using Excel.
Topics Covered:
• - Introduction to Financial Data (Sales, Expenses, Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet)
• - Data Cleaning Techniques (Remove Duplicates, Text to Columns, Data Validation)
• - Key Formulas:
• - Financial Functions: PMT, NPV, IRR
• - Logical & Lookup: IF, IFS, VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP
• - Date Functions for Finance: EOMONTH, NETWORKDAYS
• - Creating a mini financial dashboard (using Pivot Tables, Conditional Formatting &
Charts)
Activity: Analyze and summarize a P&L dataset using Pivot Tables and Charts
Session 2: SQL for Financial Data Analysis (2 Hours)
Objective: Use SQL to query and analyze financial records from databases.
Topics Covered:
• - Understanding database structure (Tables: Transactions, Customers, Accounts)
• - Basic to Intermediate SQL:
• - SELECT, WHERE, GROUP BY, ORDER BY
• - JOIN (INNER, LEFT) for combining financial tables
• - Aggregations: SUM, AVG, COUNT, MAX, MIN
• - Date Filtering and Financial Period Analysis
Use Cases:
• - Monthly revenue trend
• - Top customers by payment volume
• - Outstanding payments by due date
Activity: Write queries to get quarterly sales, monthly expenses, and profit by category
Session 3: Power BI for Financial Dashboards (3 Hours)
Objective: Visualize financial KPIs and create dynamic dashboards.
Topics Covered:
• - Power BI Interface and Workflow
• - Data Import (Excel & SQL)
• - Data Transformation (Power Query):
• - Cleaning missing financial data
• - Merging datasets (e.g., Revenue & Expenses)
• - Data Modeling:
• - Relationships between financial tables
• - DAX for Finance:
• - CALCULATE, FILTER, YTD, TOTALMTD, TOTALQTD
• - Visualizations:
• - Profit & Loss Statement Visual
• - KPI Cards: Revenue, Expenses, Net Profit
• - Trend Line Charts, Treemaps for category spend
Activity: Build a complete Financial Dashboard with:
• - Monthly Trend
• - Expense Breakdown
• - Profit Analysis
• - Dynamic Slicers (Month, Region, Category)
Q&A / Review:
• - Discuss challenges faced
• - Review best practices for real-world analytics in finance