Showing a Trend of Monthly Sales and Year-to-Date Sales
Showing a Trend of Monthly Sales and Year-to-Date Sales
In accounting, you generally track sales every month. But in the big picture, you are inter-
ested in how 12 months add up to produce annual sales.
The top chart in Figure 3.36 is a poor attempt to show both monthly sales and the accumu-
lated year-to-date (YTD) sales. The darker bars are the monthly results. The lighter bars are
the accumulated YTD numbers through the current month. In order to show the large
YTD number for November, the scale of the axis needs to extend to $400,000. This makes
the individual monthly bars far too small ...
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