When you present sales results to management, you need to have confidence in your data. The last thing you want is to create a presentation with stale or inaccurate information. How can you present your sales results more effectively in meetings, online documents, and print, and with confidence in the accuracy of your data?
If you use the right reports and charts, your data can speak for itself. Anyone who has watched sales presentations knows how hard it can be to make sense of a sea of numbers. To present financial data in a comprehensible way, use Microsoft Office 2003 Excel PivotTable reports to extract only the details that you need, preventing important information from being buried on a page of unfiltered data. For example, you can show how sales differ by region or compare recent sales numbers for the top 10 sales representatives in the country.
Applying automatic formatting or including charts can add greater visual impact to your sales presentations and support your points. You can also use
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 to automatically generate the most recent numbers from your database so that you're always presenting the latest information.
Use the following information to learn how you can more effectively report up-to-date sales results to management.