Microsoft PowerBI - Fundamentals of the PowerBI Desktop App

Description

* This course is #8 in the Microsoft PowerBI series of webinars. Click button in Program Content section below to see suggested viewing order. *

PowerBI Desktop is a new stand-alone tool that adds visualization to your data. This course focus on learning the PowerBI Desktop interface, connecting to data sources and creating the visualizations. We will demonstrate the creation of each of the various visualizations and the various options related to each.

We will also show how the visualization can be connected together to provide fully-interactive reports with drill-down capabilities. This class does not require any Excel knowledge but understanding Power Pivot and Power Query can reduce your learning curve.

This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions either during or after the event.

Highlights

The major topics that will be covered in this class include:

• Tour of the PowerBI Desktop interface
• Using PowerBI Desktop to connect to data sources
• Available visualizations in PowerBI Desktop
• Building interactivity into visualizations

Objectives

After attending this presentation, you will be able to .

• Understand the PowerBI Desktop interface
• Connect data sources to PowerBI Desktop
• Build interactive visualizations of your data

Designed For

All CPAs and Accounting Professionals that want to learn how to analyze data