Waterfall Charts

A waterfall chart is a type of bar chart, similar to a stacked bar chart except that bars don't overlap and the origin of each bar starts where the previous bar ended, allowing negative values to be readily depicted. It is often used because most graphing packages don't handle negative value intelligently when plotting stacked bar charts. Analytica's standard stacked bar chart does handle negative values intelligently, so it does provide a good alternative to the waterfall chart. This page provides instructions for plotting a standard waterfall-variety of bar chart, as depicted in the diagram above.

The example used in the above chart can be downloaded here: Waterfall chart example.ana

The waterfall chart is in the "P&L" result graph.