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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 nuts and bolts of the CFO dashboard order detail tab


First, since we have just discovered it is possible, we will set up a Fast Change type for our Order Details straight table. Go back to the Order Details tab of the CFO dashboard. Start by right-clicking on the large straight table and choosing Properties. In the Properties wizard, navigate to the first tab, General. Here, in the bottom right-hand side, we can see the Fast Change group of controls. Choose Line Chart, Pivot Table, and Straight Table for the Allowed Types.

Note

Be sure to choose Straight Table so that we can get back to where we started.

Now check the radio button in the section for Preferred Icon Position below the Allowed Types and next to In Chart instead of In Caption; click Apply and close the Properties Wizard. There will now be a small icon in the upper corner of the straight table that looks like a tiny line graph. If you click on it, the straight table changes to a pretty, but not necessarily informative, line...