Module 4: Visualizing Financial Performance – Variance and Trend Analysis
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- Description: Data visualisation is all about drawing the attention of your audience to what is important – providing the right context to the numbers so that they can quickly evaluate performance and what is driving it. Variance analysis – e.g. highlighting and explaining variances from actuals to budget or Prior year – is the cornerstone of understanding financial performance and becomes very powerful in Power BI through visualisations that enable “slice and dice” capability.
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- Outcome: By the end of this module, you will build a basic Power BI report page that is formatted with corporate colours/a logo and which allows a report consumer to see variances to budget and Prior year through KPI cards, a line chart and bar graph, utilising the cross-filtering capabilities of Power BI to understand what is driving them.
