Welcome: what you will build and how this course works

The business scenario

Summit Home & Outdoor runs 20 stores in four US regions plus Summit Online. Its sales live in 30 monthly CSV exports and a few Excel lists, and every Monday someone rebuilds the same spreadsheet by hand. By the end of this course you turn those raw files into one refreshable Power BI report: 50,547 order lines, $15,929,951.95 of sales, three pages that answer where the money comes from.

What you will learn

• See the finished Executive Overview, Products and Stores pages you will build
• Understand the course map: 12 modules, an assessment after every module and a final capstone
• Know where the lesson files, notes, quizzes and solution videos live and how to use them

Key steps in this video

• Tour the finished Summit report: Executive Overview, Products and Stores pages
• The course files: Course Data folder and a lesson folder

Common mistakes to avoid

• Skipping Module 0 and later finding dates read as day/month because of regional settings.
• Saving your work over the Base files - always use File > Save as into your own folder.
• Watching without building: pause the video and do every step in your own copy.