Course Description

Excel Crash Course Description

In this free Excel tutorial, you will learn all the tips, tricks, shortcuts, functions and formulas you need to be a power user. This free Excel course is designed specifically for spreadsheet users who are already performing professional financial analysis and financial modeling or are looking to prep for a wall street career. Take CFI's Excel Crash Course now to advance your career!

Build a strong foundation in Excel for careers in:

  • Investment banking
  • Private equity
  • Corporate development
  • Equity research
  • Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)


Free Excel Crash Course


Excel tutorial on best practices

Learn industry-leading best practices.  This free Excel course is based on first-hand investment banking training programs at global banks. The quality of instruction you receive in this course will have you just as sharp as if you took an expensive, live Wall Street course.


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Excel tutorial & training details

This free spreadsheet training course starts with the Excel basics and quickly progresses to a more advanced level where even experts will learn something new. We think it's important to start at the bottom and build a solid base, which is why we review all the foundational skills you need before building more advanced spreadsheets. In this Excel tutorial, you'll learn to ditch the mouse and use only keyboard shortcuts to dramatically improve your spreadsheet building skills.

In the second half of the Excel crash course, you'll notice the functions and formulas getting more sophisticated and the quality of financial analysis and financial modeling becoming much higher. This half of the class focuses on finance-specific formulas that you'd use as an analyst performing financial analysis on the job.


Excel Tutorial and lessons


What am I going to get from this free Excel course?

  • Learn everything you need to know about Excel spreadsheets for a career in corporate finance
  • Master keyboard shortcuts, functions, and formulas to save time speed up your modeling skills
  • Follow industry-leading best practices; simulates on-the-job analyst training
  • Stand out in an interview or move up the ladder at work by dramatically boosting your MS Excel skills and confidence
  • Get an Excel Crash course certificate of completion


Excel course for finance professionals


Who should take this free Excel tutorial?

This free Excel tutorial is perfect beginners, intermediate, and even advanced users.  The tutorial starts off with the very basics, but the training quickly advances so even power users will learn something new and have a great refresher. Start the Excel Crash Course now!

Instructor, President and CEO

Tim Vipond

Since 2005 Tim has been an active participant in capital markets across a wide range of industries and transactions including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and capital raising totaling more than $3 billion in aggregate value. Tim has a broad range of experience that includes:Investment bankingWealth managementCorporate developmentStrategyInvestor relationsFinancial planning & analysis (FP&A)In 2014 Tim founded Mathers Pacific Capital to bridge the gap between theory and practice by offering financial modeling and valuation courses to undergraduate and MBA students. Mathers Pacific also offers transaction advisory services to mid-market private companies and has advised on several M&A transactions, management buyouts, and capital raises.Tim has an M.B.A. from the Sauder School of Business and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.