Waterfall charts are very popular in certain industries and at certain consulting companies that start with “McK,” but Microsoft doesn’t actually give you the ability to create them in PowerPoint and Excel in the way you can create standard bar or line charts.
You can create them through a little creative hacking though.
And Indezine has a nice post up from Taylor Croonquist from Nuts & Bolts Speed Training on just how to do it. Take a look!