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Five Ways to Improve Business Insight in Your Excel Reports
Is there a systematic way that you can help your readers to gain more insight from your Excel reports? There just might be.
The November,...
First Excel Dashboard Report Showing Financial Data for a Public Company
The figure below shows the first Excel dashboard to display data about a public company. Although this report looks quite similar to today's reports,...
Excel Is Great for Business Intelligence!
With the right access to data, Excel can become an outstanding Business Intelligence (BI) system.
Business Intelligence (BI) is the systematic use of information about...
Down With Gauges!
It's possible to carry an analogy too far.
Dashboards for managers are logically similar to dashboards for cars. Both types of dashboards provide key information...
The First Excel Dashboard Report Shown in Public
Tektronix invented one of the early moderately priced color printers. When one of their employees saw a sample of my Excel dashboards from 1992, the...
Bad Chart! Bad, Bad Chart!
(Download my improved Excel version of the bad charts show below.)
The Wall Street Journal usually publishes excellent charts. And Excel users usually can duplicate those professional-quality...
Introducing the Power of Year-Over-Year Performance Charts in Excel
The purpose of management reports should be to help readers find and track patterns of performance…quickly and easily.
That’s the attraction of charts, of course....
Free Excel Dashboard
Learn the Key Features of Excel Dashboards with this FREE Download
The charts in this dashboard get their data from Excel Tables...a technology introduced in...
Excel Accounting and Financial Topics
Excel reports, analyses, forecasts, budgets, and other displays that don't emphasize charts or dashboards. Also, topics about using Excel for financial analysis.
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Business Solutions
All about Excel dashboards, charts, Camera objects (linked pictures), colors, drawing objects, and other Excel visualization tools and techniques.
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Getting Radical with Excel
It's time to think about Excel in a radical new way—when we use it to work with business or economic data.
It's time, in fact,...
How Fast Is Too Fast?
(Originally published in Inc Magazine.)
What typically tops the list of worries of the chief executive officers of fast growing companies? Financing that growth, according...
How to Smooth Data by Using the TREND Function
Years ago, I read that Prof. William S. Cleveland had suggested that data could be smoothed by calculating a centered trendline through adjacent data—a...
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