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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

Chapter 6. QlikView Forecasting and Trends

In this chapter, we will cover several of the QlikView tabs in the example CFO dashboard for ideas to use in forecasting and examining trends:

  • How to create a trend line or extend a forecast line in Charts using the Sales Analysis tab

  • The nuts and bolts of the Trending tab

  • The nuts and bolts of the What If? tab

Being able to predict likely future business scenarios by examining forecasts and trends can help us manage our business and quickly see whether there are steps that we can take to improve business profits.