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
Acme TechnoWidget Company.pdf
Acme TechnoWidget Company - Formula List V3.pdf

Course materials

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

Video Recording

Budget Challenge video

Academic Solution

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

Session Audio - MP3 - as requested

Someone asked for an audio MP3 of the session, so here it is.
BudgetChallemgeSoundOnly.mp3