Best Excel Courses?

I'm an incoming SA at an IB with no previous work experience, and was wondering what excel courses might be good to take to help prep? Ik they train you on the job but I still feel behind. Also I've heard great things ab BIWS but its sooo expensive so was wondering if there's any cheaper recs

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Same boat, personally I’m just doing the asimplemodel training for excel and making models for relatively simple companies then checking with upperclassmen/FT friends and then doing some PowerPoint stuff too. I genuine have never used this shit before so it’s helpful getting the foundational learning early 

 
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there's modelling and there's excel. Excel anything you can google up fairly easily, most interns / analysts figure out the shortcuts themselves. It's a very patient senior analyst / associate who will teach you any functions in the MSFT office universe. 

There are free modelling exercises floating around, but the question is do you really understand how the balance sheet and cashflow statement works. It's not excel related, excel is just a tool.

 

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