terça-feira, 28 de julho de 2020

Charts and Tables in Annual Reports






These are the basic chart types used in the Daimler AG Annual Report from 2019.
It seems that the designers of the report didn't care much about readability and understanding of the numbers. Following the tendency of many words and few charts in annual reports they believe that investors prefer reading long texts than viewing smart understandable charts....



At the end of the report we find a ten-years data overview which could have been served as a nice base for smart and interesting time-series charts, comparisons and multiple charts...