If you want to be a great FBP you’d better get good at communicating and presenting and you’d better get good at it quick‼️ Why❓ ➡️ Because one of the BIG differences between an accountant and a FBP is the ability to take a whole load of confusing data and turn it...
Bring Numbers To Life
Try this the next time you present the month end results
Ask any marketeer and they’ll tell you the worst way to bring numbers to life…is to use a table of numbers. Why? Any more than a handful of numbers creates immediate noise and potential confusion. Too many numbers means your key message is diluted or even lost. Many...
5 alternative to a boring table of numbers
Improve your finance reports and presentations with these 5 charts.. Ask any marketeer and they’ll tell you the worst way to bring numbers to life…is to use a table of numbers. Why? Any more than a handful of numbers creates immediate noise and potential confusion....
Is this the best way to show variances to budget and last year?
What's the best way to bring variances to budget to life? Stop using boring tables of numbers and try this instead… My favourite finance chart is simple text, click here’s for that video. My second favourite chart is the gap chart. I think it’s the best way to show...
Bring your numbers to life with a video results presentation in just 10 minutes
Are video financial presentations only for Coca-Cola, Apple & Samsung? Actually if you’ve got 10 seconds spare here’s how you can do it too… I pulled together this presentation in about 5 minutes. Then it took me about 10 seconds to turn it into a video. It’s a...
Did you know there are 3 ways to present the same number?
Did you know there were 3 ways to present the exact same number? The one you pick is more important than you think... £30m This round number is great for impact and simplicity, but it could look like you made it up. So you’re more likely to be challenged on it....
What is finance business partnering?
What is finance business partnering? I used to be a finance director, then I became a sales director, and I'll show you everything I learned in sales that I wished I'd known when I worked in finance. Finance business partnering is about three things: Number one,...
How much chicken is too much?
The UK fried chicken market is worth £2.2 billion a year That's the equivalent of £6 million a day, or in the minute it takes you to read this post £4,000. Put another way it's 31 million 6-piece KFC bargain buckets a year. Line the buckets up and they'd reach from...
How to say no without saying no
We often find ourselves saying no. There are great reasons why we say no. The problem is that people hate being told no. Most of us have a hyper-sensivity to the word. Think about how you feel when someone says no to you. There's nowhere to go from a no. The...
Swap tables and bullets for videos and demos to turbo-charge your reports
Are you reports and presentations looking a bit dull? Do you want to give your audience something interesting and fun to engage them? Most presentations and reports are made up of tables of numbers and bullet points - yawn central! Bring your next presentation to life...
If Carlsberg did charts, they’d probably do them like this…
Us finance people are obsessed with actual, budget, last year comparisons. We just seem to love them. We very quickly create large tables of numbers comparing actual, budget and last year. The current month isn't enough. We do YTD and full year too. For the whole...
Bullets are for guns – alternatives that won’t send people to sleep
The bullet point was invented some time in the 1950s. It's 2017, it's time to move on. Surely we can find some alternatives to bullet points? What's the problem with bullets? Number 1: they're over-used meaning they're boring and you won't stand out using them Number...
Bring your numbers to life with this simple trick
A few years ago the Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked by an analyst how important iMac sales were to Apple. He said that iMac sales were $22 billion. He could have left it there. Except he knows something that a lot of us don't. He knows never to leave a number hanging. He...
Is this the easiest way to bring numbers to life?
Data visualisation doesn't have to be difficult. You don't need a fancy new app or system. Simple text is my single favourite way to bring numbers to life. It is way better than presenting a table of numbers or a P&L account. You'll see it used a lot in the front...
Data visualisation doesn’t happen in Excel or Powerpoint
There's always been a gap between data and the people who need to make decisions based on it. Today we live in a World of big data, which basically means there's a lot of it. More than we can really imagine. And it's getting bigger and faster. Meaning the gap between...
How to use a waterfall chart with Excel template
We love a waterfall chart, because they help us tell a story. What does every great story have? A beginning, middle and end. A table of numbers will only show you the beginning and the end. Imagine watching Finding Nemo in a table: There's a fish called Nemo and he...
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