Showing posts with label Balance Sheet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Balance Sheet. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Visualizing Financial Statements: Column or Pie Charts?

As you know, Valuation Tutor provides different ways to visualize financial statement related information.  Some of these are pie charts, some column charts.  The other day, I was asked if a pie chart could also be rendered as a column chart since the user found column charts to be more intuitive.  This got me thinking that perhaps I should explain how the different types of charts are intended to be used.   Consider the following two charts, both displaying the same data: