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Power BI Community Solutions provide a collaborative space where data enthusiasts, analysts, and developers can share innovative dashboards, reports, and data models. These solutions help users solve real-world business challenges by leveraging Power BI’s powerful analytics and visualization capabilities. By participating in the community, members gain access to expert insights, best practices, and creative problem-solving techniques that enhance their data storytelling and decision-making processes.

The Power BI Community Solutions forum fosters knowledge-sharing through user-generated content, tutorials, and discussions on advanced data modeling, DAX formulas, and Power Query optimizations. Users can explore a wide range of industry-specific solutions, from financial reporting to supply chain analytics, and customize them to fit their needs. Whether you're a beginner looking for inspiration or an expert aiming to refine your analytics skills, the community serves as a valuable resource for enhancing your Power BI expertise.

ICAEW Power BI Tips & Tricks Live: your questions answered

ICAEW Power BI Tips & Tricks Live: your questions answered
In this webinar, Rishi and Gary Watson ( Digital Skills Lead at Forvis Mazars UK) were on hand for over 700 live attendees who wanted to gain a better understanding of using Power BI and its applications in accounting. Rishi and Gary shared insights on transforming and visualising financial data in Power BI and explored […]
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Grow CFO Show- The Future of Finance: How Power BI and AI Are Redefining the CFO Role

Grow CFO Show- The Future of Finance: How Power BI and AI Are Redefining the CFO Role
In this podcast episode I discussed the Power BI training course I have been delivering for GrowCFO along with the value of Power BI (and MS Fabric more broadly) for the Finance function. Key topics covered: Click here to be taken to the podcast episode
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ChatGPT and Excel Copilot on Invoice Data

ChatGPT and Excel Copilot on Invoice Data
At this Gen AI for Startup founders event held in London in Feb 2025, I ran an exercise of putting invoice data into ChatGPT to clean and obtain insights into the data in order to drive business strategy. The results were incredible! Whilst it sometimes struggled with some of the things a human expert analyst […]
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Credit Risk Modelling in Excel, Power BI and Fabric

Credit Risk Modelling in Excel, Power BI and Fabric
This solution explores how to transform an Excel-based credit rating model for government authorities into an interactive and scalable report using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Participants learn techniques to modernise complex financial models and leverage the advanced capabilities of Power BI for analysis and storytelling. • Replicating Complex Rating Logic: Translating intricate credit rating […]
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Power BI for Financial Data e-learning course (Beginner/Intermediate)

Power BI for Financial Data e-learning course (Beginner/Intermediate)
Using a realistic accounting dataset, this course empowers you to automate your month-end reports using the built-in data transformation, logic and visualisation capabilities of Power BI. You will be able to generate powerful insights on financial performance all without the manual effort of continually producing different cuts of data/pieces of analysis. Upon completion, participants will […]
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Grow CFO Webinar – Interactive Financial Statements in Power BI

Grow CFO Webinar – Interactive Financial Statements in Power BI
Event Description: If you’ve tried using Power BI for financial analysis or reporting, you’ve likely found that simple things like subtotals, sorting and mixed formats (e.g. currency and percentages) for financial statements appear to be much harder than they should be!  But the data model that sits behind a Power BI report can support all of these things out of the box and brings many additional […]
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The Great Debate on AI, Excel, and the Future of Financial Modeling

The Great Debate on AI, Excel, and the Future of Financial Modeling
In this special debate episode, host Paul Barnhurst aka The FP&A Guy is joined by an all-star panel of modeling experts to tackle some of the most contentious questions in the financial modeling world. This lively discussion promises insights, entertainment, and plenty of surprises as the panelists bring their expertise and humor to the table. […]
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Financial Modelling in the Banking Industry

Financial Modelling in the Banking Industry
In this session you’ll learn how to: Click the button below to download the resources (Presentation Slides, PBIX Files, Tabular Editor scripts etc)
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Building an Income Statement End to End
In this session Rishi will show how to build an Income Statement in Power BI end-to-end, looking at: • Capturing requirements for the report and scoping/designing a data model with scattered/inconsistent transaction data • Use of an “FS Lines” table to have metadata-driven financial statements including custom calculations • Creating Dataflows to ingest data from […]
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Financial Reporting with Power BI and Excel
In this session Rishi will show how to build an Income Statement in Power BI end-to-end, looking at: ​ • Capturing requirements for the report and scoping/designing a data model with scattered/inconsistent transaction data ​ • Use of a “FS Lines” table to have metadata driven financial statements including custom calculations ​ • Creating Dataflows […]
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Power Platform for Finance Professionals | Get ResponsLIVE #51
In this edition of Get Response LIVE we have Rishi Sapra, a Microsoft MVP, as our guest! He goes through some interesting aspects of Power Platform for financial professionals. He also goes through some interesting practical cases.
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PUG Italy Webinar – Why Accountants Should Love Power BI
The Italian Power BI User Group is proud to present Rishi Sapra (MVP), who joined us to talk about some of the Power BI features that accountants could find particularly useful in the fifth webinar of our 2020/2021 season!
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Modernising the Finance Function with Power BI – Rishi Sapra (Altius) and Amy Boyd (Microsoft UK)
In this comprehensive overview of Power BI (Desktop and service) applied to a finance scenario, learn how to take advantage of all the functionality that Power BI has to offer including: – Automatically consuming files in a folder – Storytelling with data – Dynamics graphs and measures – Waterfall charts and tables – Row Level […]
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