Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You

by Randall Bolten, Tom Campbell (Foreword)

Learn how to communicate better with numbers Whether you are distributing a report or giving a presentation, you have a lot of numbers to present and only a few minutes to get your point across. Your audience is busy and has a short attention span. Don't let an amateur presentation bog you down, confuse your audience, and damage your credibility. Instead, learn how to present numerical information effectively―in the same way you learned how to speak or write. With Painting with Numbers , you'll discover how to present numbers clearly and effectively so your ideas and your presentation shine. Author Randall Bolten shares his decades of experience as a senior finance executive distilling complicated information into clear presentations, to help you make your numerical information more comprehensible, meaningful, and accessible. Painting with Numbers is brimming with hands-on advice, techniques, tools, rules, and guidelines for producing clear, attractive, and effective quantation (the word the author has coined for the skill of presenting numbers).

Genres: Nonfiction, Business, Management, Mathematics

348 pages, Hardcover

First published February 13, 2012

Reviews

[Irfan · Rating 3 out of 5]

An easily digestible read about data presentation, with a strong emphasis on financial and business reporting and using spreadsheets, but with clear general takeaway messages for presenting data, engaging with audiences (both through tables, charts, and presentations), and understanding how to deliver messages well. The book is laid out in quite a logical way, with helpful notes and additional information sections.

Picked up as part of a Big Data and Infographics pack from Humble Bundle.

[Minh · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must-read for accounting-finance professionals.
To be effective and well-versed in telling stories with numbers.

[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

Basically, this book addresses how to communicate with numbers more effectively. As an accountant and a numbers person, I appreciated the advice given in the book and have already incorporated many of the suggestions into my daily work.

To me, this will become a reference book to use for ideas on how to more effectively communicate data to different audiences.

[Elaine]

Really interesting look at the process of report preparation. How much detail? Graphs? Categories? Ideas that make presentations clear and meaningful.

This book is at the library.

[Jobssri]

Good book to read !

[Jenny G · Rating 3 out of 5]

A couple chapters about how to format the data is quite useful

[Gina]

Bucks Library Book

Bookmarked - Chapter 1, p. 13, Pg. 213

[Ankit]

First 4 chapters were good, the book becomes a tutorial on MS Excel from Chapter 5