Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other by Randall Bolten

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By Randall Bolten

Learn how one can speak greater with numbers

Whether you're dispensing a document or giving a presentation, you've loads of numbers to offer and just a couple of mins to get your element throughout. Your viewers is busy and has a brief consciousness span. do not allow an beginner presentation bathroom you down, confuse your viewers, and harm your credibility. as a substitute, current numerical details effectively—in an identical approach you realized the right way to communicate or write. With Painting with Numbers, you will find the best way to current numbers truly and successfully so your rules and your presentation shine.

  • Use the Arabic numeral process in your virtue grasp using structure and visible results to speak powerfully
  • Understand how audiences approach your info and the way that is affecting your ''personal model image''
  • Learn the right way to be perceived as a qualified who actually knows the enterprise strategies and matters underlying your numbers
  • Use software program instruments, together with Excel, PowerPoint, and graphs, successfully and to force domestic your point

Author Randall Bolten stocks his a long time of expertise as a senior finance government distilling advanced details into transparent displays, that will help you make your numerical info extra understandable, significant, and available. Painting with Numbers is brimming with hands-on suggestion, ideas, instruments, ideas, and instructions for generating transparent, appealing, and potent quantation (the be aware the writer has coined for the ability of providing numbers)

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Mathematical logic. Profit = Revenues – Expenses. , Profit) below that. The underscore is a visual clue to show the reader that Profit is the result of an operation involving Revenues and Expenses, and it’s is a visual clue that is missing in Version B. 3. Consistency. Version A presents the time axis the way you will see it in almost every report you’re likely to encounter. Any other way of presenting time, therefore, looks strange. 4. Caption length. It’s virtually impossible to commit Deadly Sin #2 if the width of the caption is less than the width of the numbers that it is identifying.

Cell shading is one visual effect I haven’t discussed yet, but deserves some mention here. As effects go, cell shading is a bit of an “atomic flyswatter,” because when you shade in an entire cell (or group of cells), you create a powerful visual distinction that may be more than you really need. Moreover, if you use the effect too much, and you use multiple colors, you risk creating something that looks more like a work by Piet Mondrian than like a report for the board of directors. Nevertheless, there are some types of presentations where cell shading is a good choice.

Borders, Shading, and Other Visual Effects Everything on the page can send some kind of message to your audience. So far, we’ve focused on visual groupings and where the white space is (and isn’t). But white space is about the absence of something, and there are plenty of effects where their actual presence sends a message. These include: 77 77 77 Cell borders Text effects such as boldface, italics, color, font style, and font size Cell shading Cell Borders. There may be times when you have too many numbers to present for white space to be a luxury you can afford.

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