Best visual for total revenues contribution

[peps984]

Hi,

company A has a frame agreement with a client. Company B is a subsidiary of A and does part of the job.

What is the best visual to show to stakeholders how the contribution B gives to total revenues changed year by year?

these are the values:

I've come up with this two solutions, but I think there could be a better way.

(labels of B in the first picture actually should be percentages, 40%, 30%...):

In the first chart, 2022 contribution seems higher than 2019 because of absolute values, so it can be misleading.

In the second chart proprortions are correct, but the variation of total revenues can't be represented.

Is there a better way to visualize everything?

[peps984]

Hi,

thanks for your message. It certainly is a better solution than mine, but it still seems misleading because it's not so easy to visually compare the evolution of B over the years.

But your answer made me think, what if I use a 100% stacked bar chart (like my 2nd solution) and add a line graph as the total sum? Would it be possible in Power BI?

[v-yueyunzh-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi , @peps984 

According to your description, you want to use the "100% stacked bar chart" and add a  line graph as the total sum.

For your need , you can create two measures like this:

Sum of A Measure = DIVIDE( SUM('Table'[A]) ,  SUM('Table'[Total]))

Sum of B Measure = DIVIDE( SUM('Table'[B]) ,  SUM('Table'[Total]))

Then we can put this fields on the visual and we can get this:

If this method does not meet your needs, you can provide us with your special sample data and the desired output sample data in the form of tables, so that we can better help you solve the problem. (You can also upload you sample .pbix [without sensitive data] to the OneDrive and share with the OneDrive link to me ! )

Thank you for your time and sharing, and thank you for your support and understanding of PowerBI! 

Best Regards,

Aniya Zhang

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[peps984]

Hi Aniya,

your solution fits perfectly with my needs! Thanks for your help

And thanks to @vicky_  for the inspiration!

[vicky_]

There's the built-in line and column graph that might be useful. I used the custom labels from the May 2023 version to show the percentages in the columns, but keep the line graph as the total sum.