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Create Measures in Power BI that Define Your Metrics

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Self-study

4.00 Credits

Member Price $99.00

Non-Member Price $129.00

Overview

Enhance your career with an invaluable skill set in this two-part series, where you’ll explore the cost system of a real company from the ground up. Learn how to link variable and base costs, identify fluctuating and semi-fixed direct costs, and accurately trace direct materials, labor, and labor burden to products. Gain practical tools for budgeting, setting standard costs, and seamlessly embedding Activity-Based Costing (ABC) into a comprehensive cost system. This on-demand course includes both parts one and two or the original webinar recording.

Highlights

  • Introduction to DAX: Understanding the fundamentals of DAX and its role in Power BI.
  • Advanced DAX Formulas: Delving into complex DAX functions and formulas for creating sophisticated measures.
  • Time Intelligence in DAX: Exploring time-based functions to analyze data over different periods.
  • Validating Measures with DAX: Techniques for ensuring accuracy and reliability in your DAX measures.
  • Using PivotTables for Measure Validation: Employing PivotTables in Power BI to test and confirm the effectiveness of DAX measures.

Objectives

  • Apply advanced DAX formulas in Power BI to create dynamic and efficient data measures tailored to specific business needs.
  • Determine the most effective time-intelligent functions in DAX for analyzing temporal data trends and patterns in Power BI.
  • Identify key differences between common DAX functions and their use cases, enabling more strategic and informed decision-making in Power BI measure creation.
  • Choose the appropriate DAX calculation processes for validating and ensuring the accuracy of measures in various data scenarios.
  • Use PivotTables in Power BI to validate and test the effectiveness of DAX measures, enhancing the reliability of data analysis.

Preparation

Participants should have a basic understanding of Microsoft Power BI.

Notice

This is a self-study/on demand course offered by a 3rd party vendor and will NOT be accessible in the My Upcoming CPE section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by CalCPA. The course expires one year from the purchase date. Format = Online Self-Study.

Non-Member Price $129.00

Member Price $99.00