Excel Yourself/Budget Challenge Solution

Budget Challenge Webinar Recording

This session includes a lot of useful content and it brings together a number of different techniques. The content is worthy of a paid session but since it was a public challenge I decided to release my solution for free.

The materials includes the challenge documentation, the pdf manual and the solution file. I assume you have read the documentation. You also receive the blank Excel file if you want to create your own solution.

Techniques/topics covered include
  • using INDEX-MATCH (better alternative to VLOOKUP)
  • 3-D formulas to summarise all report sheets and techniques to make using them easy
  • using a reporting template to speed up creation
  • validations
  • extracting sheet names
  • automating reports

  • Free

Budget Challenge Solution

This course is based on a budgeting challenge set by an academic. People from around the world entered. In this session I take you through my solution which matched his results. Level: Intermediate to Advanced Duration: 1 hour Price: Free

Contents

Challenge materials

These are the materials supplied by the academic.
Acme TechnoWidget Interface and Data.xlsx
  • 19.1 KB
Acme TechnoWidget Company.pdf
  • 347 KB
Acme TechnoWidget Company - Formula List V3.pdf
  • 77.1 KB

Course materials

These are files for the my solution including the pdf manual.
Manual for Budget Challenge 2020.pdf
  • 368 KB
Acme TechnoWidget Interface and Data Neale Blackwood 2020.xlsx
  • 374 KB

Video Recording

Budget Challenge video
  • 59 mins
  • 254 MB

Academic Solution

This includes the solution file from the academic plus his presentation at a spreadsheet conference in 2019.
Acme+TechnoWidget+-+SSMI+version.xlsx
  • 2.03 MB
ImplementationStrategiesofMultidimensionalSpreadsheetsV3(1).pdf
  • 983 KB

Session Audio - MP3 - as requested

Someone asked for an audio MP3 of the session, so here it is.
BudgetChallemgeSoundOnly.mp3
  • 59 mins
  • 79.7 MB