Start in your Dynamics CRM System
Pull up your favorite View such as a view of all your bubbling opportunities
Now confirm your view has account information
Choose to Export this View of Data to Microsoft Excel (not the only way to do this, but a familiar way)
Now Open the Excel Workbook by clicking Open
Have you noticed this new feature in Microsoft Excel?
And Use your Date Fields as Time Dimensions
PRESS PLAY
And Play, and play and play ... with visual immersion into your data