Introduction
Microsoft offers multiple Applied Skills, exams and certificate that allow you to demonstrate your skills in a variety of applications. There are many different Excel intermediate exams, and the MO-230 will be offered by the end of 2025. In this blog post, we’ll look at this new MO-230 exam, including its requirements, and its target audience.
What is the MO-230 Exam?
The MO-230 exam, also known as the “Microsoft Office Specialist: Excel for Business Finance Associate“, is a certification exam which validates your ability to manipulate financial data in Microsoft Excel. It measures the ability to work with data and perform tasks such as cleaning and data, creating financial analyses, analysing loans and investments, and projecting into the future in Excel.
Who should take the MO-230 exam?
The MO-230 Excel for Business Finance exam is aimed at people who work in the business finance industry. They include those who are, or wish to become, financial analysts, or in other finance-related positions.
What does the MO-230 Exam cover?
The MO-230 exam covers a range of topics related to using Microsoft Excel to manage and analyze accounting data. Here is an overview of the topics covered by the exam:
- Import and export financial data in Excel
- Clean financial data in Excel
- Verify financial data integrity in Excel
- Transform financial data in Excel
- Analyze financial statements to calculate variances in Excel
- Analyze financial statements using Excel formulas
- Identify and correct errors in financial formulas
- Analyze loans
- Analyze investments
- Predict future performance
- Prepare financial projections
- Present financial information visually in Excel
What is the difference between the MO-210 exam and the MO-230 exam?
The MO-210 (and the MO-200) exam is more about the ability to use Microsoft Excel. For example, it requires detailed knowledge about page layout, together with creating tables from ranges. It doesn’t have a huge range of formulas needed.
The MO-230 exam concentrates on financial data and financial analyses. There is a wide range of knowledge about functions used in business finance.
What are the detailed requirements for the MO-230 exam?
Please see our other blog post which lists the detailed requirements for this Business Finance exam.
Our MO-230 Excel for Business Finance Associate exam preparation video course covers all of the requirements for this exam. For more details, please click here.
Conclusion
The MO-230 exam demonstrates to you and to others your abilities to manipulate business finance data. If you can master the topics shown in this blog article, you can improve your chances of passing this “Microsoft Excel for Business Finance” exam, and gain skills when manipulating finance data in Excel. Good luck!
