Am I using the correct chart?

Rather unexciting data to chart
- before deciding on the chart type, it is best to determine what to chart

I would not necessarily chart the actual values
- often meaningless in isolation.
- better put in context by relating them to something else

Decide what influences whatever it is you are wanting to chart
- business activity?
- number of sites?
- number of employees?
- business days in the period
etc

Some expenses are variable, others fixed, others semi-fixed
- does it make sense to sub-categorise expenses (and by implication prepaymets)

Fixed assets
- chart as proportion of total assets?
- some categories of fixed asset change regularly , others do not, highlight the ones which vary
etc

Prepaid expenses
- fluctuate like the wind from month to month, but often pretty similar to same month in prior year

Business structure
- look at youtr business structure and sub-divide assets so that the resultant data is useful

example
a business with 100 shops (10 large, 40 medium, 50 small)
- set up separate charts for large, medium and small
- this way any true anomoly jumps out
etc

The ONLY purpose of a businesss chart should be to give management "visual" signals to indicate either that no action is required or else to direct attention to areas that do require it
- any chart that fails that hurdle should be discontinued