Free Lesson
Your Data Is a Mess — Power Query Can Fix That
45 min
Jun 8, 2026 12:00 PM
What you'll learn
Understand what Power Query is
and how it fits into Excel and Power BI workflows for finance professionals.
Connect to multiple data sources
— databases, Excel files, and web data — and import them without manual reformatting
Clean and transform messy data
using Power Query Editor to handle missing values, duplicates, and inconsistent formats.
Automate recurring financial processes
like rolling forecasts, actuals imports, and AR/AP reconciliations.
See how Power Query connects to broader financial modeling
— from dynamic tables to KPI dashboards and variance analysis.
Why this topic matters
Finance teams waste hours every week cleaning, reformatting, and re-importing the same data. Power Query eliminates that rework — connecting directly to your data sources and transforming them automatically. This session shows FP&A professionals how to stop managing data manually and start spending that time on the analysis that actually drives decisions.
