Practical resources for the climb
Free guides, the blog, training emails, and tools for finance and analytics professionals who got really good and want to keep going.

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The Excel Reference Guide
The most comprehensive Excel quick reference for finance and analytics professionals. Comes in full color and printer friendly.
What's Inside
- 100 keyboard shortcuts
- 41 functions with live examples and syntax
- Cleaning: TRIM, LEFT, RIGHT, MID, TEXTSPLIT, SUBSTITUTE
- Lookups: XLOOKUP, XMATCH, FILTER, INDEX/MATCH
- Calculations and logic: SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, IF, IFS
- Full color and printer friendly versions, both free
More Free Resources
Additional ways to level up your Excel and analytics skills.
The Blog
Practical articles on Excel, analytics, and building a finance and analytics career. The work, the craft, and the climb, written for the individual professional.
Read the blogYouTube Channel
Weekly Excel tutorials, career advice, and analytics insights. Over 100+ videos covering everything from basic shortcuts to advanced financial modeling.
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Excel training, practical ideas and occasional offers from Matt Brattin. Sign up if you would like to hear from me.
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A 4-video series on YouTube you can follow along with, download the source file, and start building real analytics skills today.
Get the workbook and videosCRM vs. Plan Analytics Project
Download the source workbook with opportunities, invoice history and a bookings plan, then work through the project with Matt on YouTube.
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Books by Matt Brattin
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The Art of Analytics & Surviving the Hairball
The Art of Analytics is available now. Surviving the Hairball is coming soon. Practical analytics for finance, and steady judgment for corporate life.