The waterfall chart is also known as the cascade or bridge chart. It used a lot by the finance, business analyst and sales fraternities. However there’s a small problem – PowerPoint forgot to ship them. The only way you can create waterfall charts in PowerPoint is by manipulating the stacked charts, but they turn out to be very basic. And take a lot of time. In this post, we will take a look at what the waterfall chart is and learn how we can create powerful ones in minutes using oomfo.
What is a waterfall chart?
A typical waterfall chart is used to show how an initial value increases and decreases by a series of intermediate values, leading to a final value. A simple example of this is the inventory audit of men’s t-shirts in a retail outlet.
As you can see, the initial and the final values are represented by whole columns, while the intermediate values are denoted by floating columns.
Waterfall charts are also used to show the contribution of parts of a whole, especially when there are negative contributors as well. A good example of this is showing the revenue and costs of a company to come to the final profit.
about 1 year ago
The waterfall chart is also known as the cascade or bridge chart. It used a lot by the finance, business analyst and sales fraternities. However there’s a small problem – PowerPoint forgot to ship them. The only way you can create waterfall charts in PowerPoint is by manipulating the stacked charts, but they turn out
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by Sanket
May 13, 2011
Tutorials
PowerPoint does not offer funnel charts by default. So every time you need to show elimination or streamlining of data, you either need to show the data itself in a table or use a wrong chart like the column chart. With oomfo, you can create a funnel chart in PowerPoint and set the functionality exactly as you need in minutes.
What is a funnel chart?
A funnel chart is used to show progressive reduction of data as it passes from one phase to another. The size of the area is determined by the series value as a percentage of the total of all values. The easiest example of this is if you want to show your sales conversion rates – starting from the number of leads you got, you move to the number of leads you could you qualify and finally the closure stage. Understandably, there would be a reduction of data, call it phased elimination if you want to, when you move from one stage to another.
about 1 year ago
PowerPoint does not offer funnel charts by default. So every time you need to show elimination or streamlining of data, you either need to show the data itself in a table or use a wrong chart like the column chart. With oomfo, you can create a funnel chart in PowerPoint and set the functionality exactly
Read more
by Sanket
May 11, 2011
Tutorials
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