Do you master color scales in reports? Test your knowledge on colors and the right way to convey numbers. Your supervisory board wants a report on the stance in Europe toward the free trade agreement [...]

Wow! The German news magazine “Der Spiegel” mocks business economists because they believe in human rationality. The international controller organization ICV says that controllers defend the rationality [...]

Is the end of dashboards near? Because visualizations with unrelated content are too complex for our "narrow" human minds? Because we literally cannot see through things because the eye sequences get [...]

Controllers are supposed to be consultants. Their reports are supposed to have a message – ideally, in the title as well as in the comments and summaries. Today, we’ll learn how to formulate messages [...]

Controllers are bean counters – and that is a good thing! After all, good entrepreneurs are as well. And too many captains on one ship spoil the course.

It’s understandable that managers don’t want to spend more time studying a computer screen than they would perusing the business section of the Wall Street Journal to simply get their latest revenue [...]

Gross margin flow analysis breaks down a margin variance by its components to deliver important clues about the underlying causes. This way you determine if a price increase really leads to higher sales [...]

Today’s marketing needs to be even fresher, funnier and more shocking than that from yesterday - just to grab the audience’s attention. Why not try the same strategy on your management? After all [...]

Purchasing is the ugly stepchild and sleeping beauty rolled into one. If you can wake it from its spell, you will reap in treasures of information. What are we purchasing? How can we save? How much? EDS [...]