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Forecasting for Business Brilliance
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Forecasting for Business Brilliance

Business Forecasting with Excel & Power BI: Concepts, Tools, & Decision-Making
Created byRajneet Kaur
Last updated 7/2025
English
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What you'll learn

  • Create and understand time series forecasts
  • Use Excel and Power BI to visualize and monitor trends
  • 5 forecasting stories that exemplify how data driven decisions are taken
  • Understand forecasting concepts like trends & seasonality

Course content

5 sections • 14 lectures • 1h 6m total length

  • Introduction to Forecasting1:25

    Explore time series forecasting as the art of predicting outcomes, measure forecasting accuracy, and see how forecasts drive decisions in sales, marketing, HR, and finance through a case study.

  • Basics to Time Series5:07

    Explore time series fundamentals, including trend, seasonality (driven and calendar-driven), cyclic and irregular components, and learn to measure forecasting accuracy via train-test splits and percentage error metrics.

  • Time Series - Detecting Seasonality6:17

    Identify whether a time series is seasonal by analyzing correlation with lagged sales data and determine a 12-month seasonality period using simple autocorrelation visuals.

  • Time Series Decomposition!5:31

    Explore time series decomposition to break a series into trend, seasonality, and irregularity, and learn how business changes and consumer behavior shape these components.

Requirements

  • Basic excel know-how and knowledge of statistics helpful, but not a pre-requisite

Description

Want to make smarter business decisions using data you already have? Learn forecasting the practical way — using Excel and Power BI!

This course is your hands-on guide to business forecasting, designed for non-technical professionals, students, analysts, and managers. Whether you're planning sales, budgeting, managing inventory, or forecasting customer demand, this course will show you how to do it using simple, accessible tools — no coding, no complex math.

You'll start by understanding core forecasting concepts — trends, seasonality, smoothing, and more. Then, using step-by-step demos in Excel and Power BI, you’ll learn how to create accurate forecasts, visualize them, and interpret the results.

But what really sets this course apart is our focus on the "so what?" — how to consume and apply forecasts in real business scenarios. You’ll explore 5 practical forecasting stories from different industries, and see how companies use forecasting to make confident decisions.

By the end, you’ll be equipped to:

  • Create and understand time series forecasts

  • Use Excel and Power BI to visualize and monitor trends

  • Apply forecast insights to real business problems

If you’re ready to turn data into foresight and action — enroll now and start forecasting with confidence!

All the best and have fun along the way!

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners to Time-series forecasting
  • Business audience who wish to learn basics
  • Those who wish to learn how to apply forecast insights to real business decisions

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