ACCA Applied Knowledge · Management Accounting · Presenting information
A company wants to show the proportion of total sales of 800,000 contributed by each of its four products over the year. Which presentation method is MOST suitable for showing each product's share of the total?
A pie chart is most suitable because it shows each product's proportion of total sales as a slice of a whole. Line graphs and Z charts show trends over time, and scatter diagrams show relationships between two variables, so they are less appropriate.
- AA pie chartCorrect
- BA scatter diagram
- CA line graph of sales against time
- DA Z chart
Explanation
A pie chart shows the relative proportion of each component to a whole. A line graph and Z chart show trends over time, and a scatter diagram shows the relationship between two variables, so none of those displays shares of a total.
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