In the enterprise performance chart, the upward sloping line may indicate good news or bad news.
If the chart shows profit or sales, the upward sloping line is good news. However, if the chart shows the cost or measurement of the problem area, the upward sloping line or the rise of a series of bar charts will show us bad news.
So, when a report contains multiple such charts, how to help readers quickly and correctly explain the trend of each chart?
The indicators used by The Wall Street Journal are similar to those shown here. If you know three skills, you can add similar indicators to your chart.
At first glance, the solution seems obvious. This obvious solution uses two of my three technologies. Can be used in Excel 2003. However, since the third trick is only applicable to the new Excel(Excel 2007 and later), I will only discuss this program.