Waterfall chart
Opening cash
Crate sales
Grants
Labor
Packing and freight
Orchard inputs
Frost damage
Loan payments
Closing cash
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Start from one total, step through every
change, and arrive at another. Each floating
bar begins where the previous one ended,
showing what added and what subtracted.
Management consultants made it a staple of
the business slide:
“When I asked former McKinsey-ites what
lessons they learned about charts, one thing
they all mentioned was waterfall charts. They
loved them . . . The waterfall chart is an
excellent method of illustrating how you get
from number A to number B” (Ethan M. Rasiel,
The McKinsey Way
, 1999).
Also called:
bridge chart, cascade chart
From:
Floating bar chart
Data as of 16:22 UTC on 20 Oct 2026
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