Showing component and total variance to budget; Issue #438 April 30 2019

A common message in financial, project update, and operations presentations is to explain the total variance in expenses to the budget by looking at the variance in each expense line item. The common approach is to show the spreadsheet of numbers extracted from the accounting system. My latest slide makeover shows how you can visually…

FinancialViz Makeover: Comparing multiple characteristics; Issue #435 March 19 2019

The latest FinancialViz makeover video I posted illustrates a situation we can often find ourselves in. We are comparing items to each other and we want to show multiple characteristics of the items to make our point. In this example from the November 2018 issue of the Globe and Mail Report on Business magazine, the…