Business Decision Making: Data Visualization and Performance Analysis

This report focuses on utilizing data presentation methods for effective business decision-making. It includes interpretations of pie charts, bar charts, and line charts for the years 2014, 2015, and 2016, highlighting the increasing business performance over time. Trend lines are also analyzed to predict future performance based on current data. The report references relevant literature on principal component analysis and property investment appraisal, providing a comprehensive overview of data-driven business analysis. Desklib offers additional resources for students seeking solved assignments and study materials.

BUSINESS DECISION
MAKING
TASK 3.3

Pie Chart For Year 2014
931
959
1104
713
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4

Pie Chart For Year 2015
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
957
997
1163
769

Pie Chart For Year 2016
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
1008
1035
1189
811

INTERPRETATION
 Pie chart is one of the important method of presentation of
data that shows all the tour packages currently offered by an
entity in order to gain higher trust and loyalty among variety
of customers in the external market.

Bar chart for year 2014
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200
931
959
1104
713

Bar chart for year 2015
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
957
997
1163
769

Bar chart for year 2016
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
1008
1035
1189
811

INTERPRETATION
 Bar chart is the horizontal presentation of data which shows
the relationship among various parameters and the overall
entity's performance in the best possible manner.
 It shows that the performance of the business is increasing
with the passage of time.

Line chart for year 2014
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
931 959
1104
713

Line chart for year 2015
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
957 997
1163
769

Line chart for year 2016
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1008 1035
1189
811

INTERPRETATION
 Line chart is one of the important tools of presentation which
helps in reflecting higher business performance to determine
the growth of an entity to design all the products or services
currently offered by an entity to its variety of customers in
the external business environment.
 The above line chart shows the higher performance of an
entity by showing upward trend in three of the years such as
2014,2015 and 2016.

Trend Line For year 2014
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
931 959
1104
713
f(x) = -50.9x + 1054

Trend Line For year 2015
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
957 997
1163
769
f(x) = -39.8x + 1071

Trend Line For year 2016
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1008 1035
1189
811
f(x) = -43.7x + 1120

INTERPRETATION
 Trend line is an important approach used by an entity in
order to predict the future performance of the business by the
current performance of an entity in order to generate higher
outcomes in the near future.
 The trend line of all the products states that in year
2014,2015 and 2016 the value of the business is increasing
over the years

REFERENCES
Brooks, J. P., Dula, J. H. and Boone, E. L., 2013. A pure L1-
norm principal component analysis. Computational statistics
& data analysis. 61. pp.83-98.
Beltrame, F., Cappelletto, R. and Toniolo, G., 2014. Estimating
SMEs Cost of Equity Using a Value at Risk Approach: The
Capital at Risk Model. Springer.
Baum, A. E. and Crosby, N., 2014. Property investment
appraisal. John Wiley & Sons.

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