Can BMW improve their Report? Graph Vs. Excel Table (Part 1)

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Oct 13, 2017 #MsExcel
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In this case study we take a look at the 2015 Annual Report from BMW and look at ways we could improve on some of the tables and graphs used in the report. Of course I will use Microsoft Excel for this. It's sometimes difficult to decide which visualization to use for which data sets. Specially when it comes to visualizing financial numbers in corporate reports. Sometimes it helps to test different versions - which you can easily do in Excel and then put them side by side. Or give the different versions as handouts to your team and decide which is the easiest and fastest to read.

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In this video we take a look at a specific table which compares sales volume of 2015 by Mini model with previous year's values. In addition it shows the proportion of sales volume for each Mini Model as compared to the total. There is a lot of information in the table. Could we show this better with a chart? or should we stick to a table?

Link to BMW 2015 Annual report: http://bit.ly/BMWPDF2015

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