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Corporate Finance Institute

Power BI Financial Statements

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Power BI Financial Statements Overview

Welcome to the most comprehensive Financial Statements in Power BI walkthrough ever. In this case study, you’ll practice your BI skills by taking on the role of a Business Intelligence Developer. You will be helping a retail company automate and visualize its most important financial statements. Creating Financial Statements in Power BI poses three significant challenges, which we will help you solve using a combination of BI tools.
  • Challenge 1: How to replicate financial statement layouts and formatting
  • Challenge 2: How to create account subtotals and other DAX summaries
  • Challenge 3: How to create the more complex cash flow statement
With plenty of extended student challenges and interactive exercises, this course is the perfect scenario-based case study to reinforce your fundamental knowledge of Power BI.

Interactive Financial Statements in Power BI

Power BI offers a great way to visualize and interact with high-level financial data.

Power BI Financial Statements Learning Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
  • Understand how to define and propose an achievable project scope.
  • Write an SQL query to source General Ledger Data from a database
  • Build a data model using a snowflake schema in Power BI
  • Build an Income Statement and Balance Sheet in Power BI
  • Create financial statements in Excel using Cube Formulas
  • Compare the benefits of Power BI vs. Excel for Financial Analysis

Who should take this course?

This course is perfect for anyone who wants to apply their Power BI and DAX skills in a real-world scenario. There is no better way to kick-start a career in data analysis, quantitative analysis, business intelligence, or other areas of finance with applied, practical knowledge of Power BI and related BI tools.

Syllabus

  • Case Study Introduction
  • Extract Data from the Database
  • Create the Data Model in Power Query
  • Income Statement in Power BI
  • Balance Sheet in Power BI
  • Analyze in Excel with Cube Formulas
  • Case Study Summary
  • Qualified Assessment

Taught by

Sebastian Taylor and Joseph Yeates

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