Waterfall chart
Now that you calculated different opportunities based on the NRM pillars, it is time to wrap up and present the numbers to your management. You would like to present a waterfall graph to show how your initiatives will have an impact on the company's net sales of 2024. Let's use the forecast you calculated in the previous exercise, add the NRM pillars and make a clear waterfall graph out of it!
This exercise is part of the course
Case Study: Net Revenue Management in Google Sheets
Exercise instructions
- Calculate the Natural Growth in
B2
using the 2023 and 2024 sales numbers. Copy and paste this value by selecting Paste Special, Values Only in the same cell so we can use the number to forecast 2024 growth. - Fill in the sales of the two NRM initiatives.
- Recalculate the 2024 expected net sales and visualize your data with a Waterfall chart by selecting data from
A2
toD3
.
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