Tableau Dashboard Activity $14-1$

Budget vs$.$ Actual

The following Tableau dashboard visualizes the performance against the operating budget for a janitorial and landscaping service company called Just Right Services operating out of Chicago, IL$.$ The management team for Just Right Services formulated the fiscal year $($FY$)2021$ operating budget during Quarter $4$ of FY $2020.$ After the budget was approved by the Chief Executive Officer, the budgeted amount for each general ledger account was uploaded into the accounting system by month. The management team meets monthly once the accounting period closes to discuss the company's performance against its budget.

This dashboard contains a menu at the top left to store the filtering options for the dashboard. The budget is reviewed individually by one of three account types: $1.$ Sales, $2.$ Cost of Service, and $3.$ Selling and Administrative Expenses. The top row of the dashboard summarizes the overall performance for the account type selected. The second and third rows display the performance by month. The green shading indicates the company exceeded expectations while the red shading alerts the team to the months where the goals were not met.

Use the information within the visualization to answer to the following questions.