I wanted to share my review of Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard. It's an excellent and sobering book which is fundamentally about responsibility, integrity, honesty authenticity and vision in leadership and business. Read it, and you'll change your mind about sustainability and how it should not be a 'nice to have' but … Continue reading Let my People go Surfing: Book Review
December is a great time for setting personal and business goals for next year. I'd hoped for some downtime at this time of year, but I've picked up a crucial data science project which needs to be delivered over Christmas so there isn't much downtime. I'm also starting to write another book, which will be … Continue reading Business Goals for 2019: Looking back over 2018 and forward
Following on from my earlier blog post, discussing Accounting Ratios, let's take a look at a specific set: Profitability Ratios.Profitability Ratios can be defined as understanding the effectiveness of the company in generating profit. In this blog post, we will concentrate on profitability ratios, working our way around the flow chart presented here: The formula … Continue reading Financial Storytelling and Data Storytelling with Profitability Ratios
As a consultant, I think it's important to understand the numbers that make up a business. It means I can provide better advice to my customers since I can read their balance sheets, understand their financial statements, and translate these numbers into effective data visualization in tools such as Tableau and Power BI. There are … Continue reading Financial Storytelling and Data Storytelling in #PowerBI