Digital Decoded - harnessing data insight: an introduction to Power BI
AAT Masterclass
Every finance professional can benefit from Power BI's powerful data manipulation.
Course Type
Video on demand
Length
1 - 3 hours
What you’ll achieve
By attending this series of events, you’ll acquire practical skills to position yourself as a tech-savvy accountant or bookkeeper ready to meet the demands of a challenging digital era. The event will focus on a number of areas, including automation, data visualisation, cyber security, blockchain, and AI, as well as helping you understand your digital tools options with practical demonstrations.
In this series of digital decoded masterclasses, we delve into the realm of digital tools and technologies shaping the future of accounting. Our expert-led sessions will equip you with essential skills in data visualisation, automation, cyber security, and blockchain, as well as look at the role of artificial intelligence (AI).
Our Digital Decoded series will take you through four key areas you need to become experts in to enhance your role as a finance professional. It features four insightful masterclasses, designed to give you a practical understanding of how you can utilise digital skills to add value, maximise profits, and advance your career.
You can purchase this course on its own or discounted as part of the Digital Decoded bundle.
This series of events is designed for all finance professionals, as now more than ever, it’s vital to have a practical understanding of digital skills to add value, maximise profits, and career-critical. At the end of this series, you’ll develop a thorough understanding of the digital skills you need and increase your knowledge on applying new tech to your business, identify the trends affecting the industry now, increase efficiency, and optimise your or your business's performance.
Meet the Speaker(s)
Jamie Barnes
Jamie Barnes
Jamie has been working in Data and Analytics for over 10 years in all kinds of environments, leading teams and projects.
He has a passion for learning and teaching and has focused his recent years on data visualisation and story telling in Power BI. He says he still has so much to learn but is always happy to share what he already knows.
Read moreOverview
Video on demand |
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1 - 3 hours |
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Data visualisation and analytics |
Syllabus
Every finance professional can benefit from Power BI's powerful data manipulation. During this session, you'll learn how to harness this crucial tool to provide more engaging insights for your colleagues and customers. You'll also get an end-to-end overview of how to set up a reporting journey with Power BI, including:
- connecting to your data; looking at types of data sources and how to connect
- transforming, preparing and modeling the data; cleanse subset and qualify your data, then link tables through relationships
- modelling the data; link your tables by creating relationships
- building interactive visuals and reports
- publishing to the Power BI service to share your reports.
How to access
Once purchased you'll be able to access the AAT Learning Portal where you'll have 12 months from the date to access the learning materials. AAT Learning Portal allows you to view all the courses you've purchased in one place, monitor your latest training activity and create goals to help you achieve your training aims.
Meet the sponsor: Xero
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Xero makes invoicing and accounting quick and easy. Join this digital showcase to find out how Xero software can help provide a digital solution to your accounting needs. Xero is a cloud-based accounting software platform for small businesses has 3.5 million subscribers globally. Through Xero, small business owners and their advisors have access to real-time financial data anytime, anywhere and on any device. Xero offers an ecosystem of over 1,000 third-party apps and 300 plus connections to banks and other financial partners. In 2020 Xero was recognised by IDC MarketScape as a leader in its worldwide SaaS and cloud-enabled small business finance and accounting applications vendor assessment. |
Join over 200,000 accountants and bookkeepers using Xero in their practice