Eclor Waterfall

Eclor Waterfall is an advanced waterfall chart built for financial reporting and communication. In a single visual it turns a chain of values into a clear story of how a starting figure becomes a final one, making every increase, decrease and above all the variance between values immediately readable for your audience. It brings the PowerPoint-style bridge chart that finance and consulting teams know into Power BI, so you can standardize your month-end and quarter-end closings for business reviews, management-committee meetings and board decks, instead of rebuilding the same slide by hand every period. Two analysis modes cover the way finance actually reports: - Cumulative mode chains any number of pillars into a running total : a cost bridge, a cash-flow evolution or a headcount walk, step by step. - Comparison mode places two or more reference pillars side by side and inserts bridge bars that decompose and explain the variance between them, so the gap between Budget and Actual, or N and N-1, is spelled out rather than left implicit. Features that sharpen the financial narrative : - Y-axis floor offset that amplifies small variations so meaningful gaps are not crushed by large absolute values, with a broken-axis indicator that keeps the scale honest. - Variation arcs between consecutive pillars, labelled with the absolute delta, the percentage, or both. - An optional Excel-like footnote table, aligned column-by-column with the bars, for the supporting detail finance audiences expect. - Designed to follow IBCS (International Business Communication Standards) notation : consistent, uncluttered conventions for actuals, plan/forecast and positive vs negative variance, so your reports stay on-standard for financial communication. - Full formatting control (colours, fonts, number formats, legend), plus high-contrast mode, report-page tooltips and drill-down support. Who it is for: finance and FP&A teams, controllers, business analysts and anyone who has to present results, budgets or forecasts and needs the variance between figures to be the headline, not a footnote. The need it addresses: standard column charts and the native waterfall show values but bury the variance : the one number a financial audience cares about. Eclor Waterfall makes the gaps between values explicit, amplifies them when they matter, and packages the whole analysis into one communication-ready waterfall, removing the manual annotation and multi-visual workarounds finance teams rely on today.