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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

Delving into the four-quadrant layout


Right away, we notice that not only are the controls laid out intuitively like the other tabs, but also this page has a nice four-quadrant layout that is similar to the look we created when we created our new Sales Analysis tab. Four-quadrant layouts are often the easiest visualization for human beings to mentally organize. Each quadrant is essentially the same size, implying that they are of equal importance in the information they provide. More than a handful of items on a single page requires too much thought to quickly prioritize. Humans who are taught to read from left to right will also tend to assume that the upper left-hand side quadrant is the most important. This dashboard is definitely organized to display the most important pieces of information on the top row, but the left-hand bar graph requires more time to register what it represents and to interpret, while the right-hand table, though not as pretty, certainly draws your eyes because...