About 20 years ago I bought a copy of Edward Tufte's book, “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.” Although the title sounds boring, the book made me think about how authors could better use ...

Managing projects can sometimes feel like herding cats: tasks scatter, deadlines blur, and team members lose focus. Without a solid project management tool for tracking tacks and a project management ...

There are two main reasons to use logarithmic scales in charts and graphs. The first is to respond to skewness towards large values; i.e., cases in which one or a few points are much larger than the ...

Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

Software packages for charting data often offer menus; i.e., lists of charts that are available. Excel offers a menu; Tableau has Show Me! Elementary statistics and graphing books offer recipes; i.e., ...

What Is a Chart of Accounts? How It Works and Examples Your email has been sent A chart of accounts organizes and categorizes financial transactions. This guide explains how a chart of accounts works ...