Actual outcome versus budget in charts
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A nice way of comparing a budget against the actual outcome is using column charts where you see the actual outcome as dark bars and the “unused” budget as a more transparent bar.
Category: Controlling
Display variances using waterfall charts
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As a controller you’re always asked to explain variances in the monthly results against for example budget or a forecast, and a great way of doing this with a chart is creating a waterfall chart (or sometimes called stair chart).