You’ve analyzed the income and expenses and need to communicate important findings to the executives or Board. If you want to show how the revenue and expenses lead to the net income for the time period, this video shows how to use a waterfall graph to allow the viewers to quickly walk through the components…
Author: Dave Paradi
Dave Paradi has over twenty-two years of experience delivering customized training workshops to help business professionals improve their presentations. He has written ten books and over 600 articles on the topic of effective presentations and his ideas have appeared in publications around the world. His focus is on helping corporate professionals visually communicate the messages in their data so they don't overwhelm and confuse executives. Dave is one of fewer than ten people in North America recognized by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional Award for his contributions to the Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams communities. His articles and videos on virtual presenting have been viewed over 4.8 million times and liked over 17,000 times on YouTube.
Showing difference between this year and last year/budget; Slide Makeover #93
Visually show variances: This Year compared to Last Year and Budget To see how well we are doing this year, we compare this year’s results to last year’s results and to the budget we set at the start of the year. Too often we show a spreadsheet of the numbers and expect the audience to…
Ten steps you can take to improve your PowerPoint presentations in 2019; Issue #430 January 8 2019
It is the start of a new year and people often take this opportunity to consider what changes they will make to improve their lives. In this article I share ten steps you can take to improve your PowerPoint presentations this year. Step 1: Adopt a new philosophy Instead of doing things the way you’ve…
Two half-day workshops for Masters of Finance students (Dec 14, 2019, Toronto, ON)
Customized half-day workshops for students of the Queen’s Smith School Masters of Finance program covering planning a presentation, focusing the message, and creating effective visuals for financial presentations. The session includes many real-life examples to reinforce the ideas.
Making presentations more accessible; Issue #429 December 11 2018
Last week I was working with an organization who has a library of graphics that they encourage their staff to use. This gives a consistency to the look of their presentations. Each graphic represents a specific role, service, or element of their business. When I was reviewing the graphics, I noticed that the graphics did…
Presenting the income or P&L statement: Show Budget and variance walk of expense categories
You have looked at the difference between the actual and budget expenses in the different expense categories. You want to communicate the variances visually. This video shows how to use a steps to a total column graph to show the actual expenses and variance in each category and how they add to the total expense…
Presenting the income or P&L statement: Show components that make up the total expenses
You’ve analyzed the income and expenses and need to communicate important findings to the executives or Board. If you want to show the components that make up the total expenses for the time period, this video shows how to use a steps to a total bar chart to allow the viewers to quickly see which…
Bar charts with long category labels; Issue #428 November 27 2018
How do we create graphs with category labels that contain a lot of text? If you are comparing values to each other, a column graph can get tricky since Excel and PowerPoint will turn the text at an angle and cut off labels that are really long. This makes it very hard for the audience…
2018 Gift List for Presenters and Recommended Products & Services; Issue #427 November 13 2018
As soon as Halloween was done two weeks ago I started to see Christmas decorations go up in stores and on homes. When I was walking around Chicago last week the decorating was in high gear in the city. It is the time of year we start to think of gifts for others (and ourselves)…
Presenting the income or P&L statement: Compare values to a common goal
You’ve analyzed the income and expenses and need to communicate important findings to the executives or Board. If you want to show how different regions, offices, etc. compare to the single goal set for all of them, this video shows you how to use a dashed line on a column chart to allow the viewers…