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Qlikview for Finance

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Qlikview for Finance

Overview of this book

This book is an effective step-by-step tutoring guide for financial analysis using Qlikview. It begins by teaching you the crucial concepts of Qlikview Finance to help you develop an effective understanding of financial data analysis and finance. The book then goes on to cover real-world, practical examples on the use of Qlikview for financial planning and analysis, expense management, risk management, and more. Moving on, topics such as Asset Management QlikView Dashboard and Retail Sales Analysis are covered in a strategic way. We then shift the focus to deal with the concepts of Inventory, Supply Chain, and Plant Coverage Dashboards. The book then reaches its conclusion by dealing with ways to share your QlikView insights. By the end of this book, you will have a good understanding of how to use Qlikview for numerous applications in finance.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
QlikView for Finance
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The sales analysis tab in a nutshell


The Sales Analysis tab has many poor display choices and some good ones. Too much information is crammed onto the sheet. Although the months and years are readily visible, thus inviting selections and matching the display of the KPIs tab so that there is continuity between sheets, the sheet does require scrolling to see the chart images at the bottom of the display. People tend to assume that, if scrolling is necessary, the information that is out of sight is of less importance than the information that is readily visible. The goal is to provide readily actionable information that is easy to see and understand. The designer has tried to mitigate this problem by adding text indicating that we need to scroll down the sheet (see the arrow near the top-left corner of the preceding screenshot), but that is generally considered a poor design choice.

Also, the spacing of the eight Quick Selections is incorrect, and we cannot see the name next to the quick selection...