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Unknowncharacte
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Custom Column - Previous Fiscal Year

Hello, 

 

I am trying to identify previous FISCAL year. My fiscal year starts on October 1st and ends on September 30th, for example:

Calendar DateFiscal Year
09/29/20242024
09/30/20242024
10/01/20242025
10/02/20242025

 

I have a calendar table in which I want to add a column identifying previous FISCAL year, here are my columns

Calendar DateCalendar YearFiscal YearMonth NameMonth Number
10/01/202420242025October10

 

Anonymous helped me figure out current fiscal year in this post, looking for help identifying previous fiscal year now. My attempts to change his syntax to get previous fiscal year did not work.

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Query/Custom-Column-Current-Fiscal-Year/td-p/4035594#M132283 

  • Good day Unknowncharacte ,

    I've written a custom function, fnOffsetFY, to calculate the FY offset by "offset" years for date "dt" where the FY starts on month "fym" and day "fyd" e.g. to calculate the previous FY for #date(2023,10,6)

    = fnOffsetFY(#date(2023,10,6), 10, 1, -1)

     Here is the function (if you have dates before 2000 change the 2000 to be earlier than your earliest date).

    (dt as any, fym as number, fyd as number, offset as number) as any =>
        let
            yyyy = Date.Year(dt),
            m = Date.Month(dt),
            d = Date.Day(dt),
            result = if #date(2000, m, d) >= #date(2000, fym, fyd) then yyyy + offset + 1 else yyyy + offset
        in
            result

    ...and here is an example of its application

    let
    Source = List.Generate( () => [i=1, d=#date(2022,1,1)], each [i] <= 24, each [i=[i]+1, d=Date.AddMonths([d],1)], each [d] ),
    #"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(Source, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), type table [Calendar Date=date], null, ExtraValues.Error),
    #"Add current FY" = Table.AddColumn(#"Converted to Table", "Current FY", each fnOffsetFY([Calendar Date], 10, 1, 0), type number),
    #"Add previous FY" = Table.AddColumn(#"Add current FY", "Previous FY", each fnOffsetFY([Calendar Date], 10, 1, -1), type number),
    #"Add next FY" = Table.AddColumn(#"Add previous FY", "Next FY", each fnOffsetFY([Calendar Date], 10, 1, 1), type number)
    in
    #"Add next FY"

    ...which gives this result (my dates are UK format but the function will work with US locale).

    I've attached an example Excel workbook. 

    Hope this helps

  • collinsg's avatar
    collinsg
    2 years ago

    Good day Unknowncharacte ,

    Here's the example in a .pbix. If you have dates earlier than 2000 then change the "2000"s in this line to before your earliest date

    result = if #date(2000, m, d) >= #date(2000, fym, fyd) then yyyy + offset + 1 else yyyy + offset

    e.g.

    result = if #date(1920, m, d) >= #date(1920, fym, fyd) then yyyy + offset + 1 else yyyy + offset

    Hope this helps 

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  • collinsg's avatar
    collinsg
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    Good day Unknowncharacte ,

    I've written a custom function, fnOffsetFY, to calculate the FY offset by "offset" years for date "dt" where the FY starts on month "fym" and day "fyd" e.g. to calculate the previous FY for #date(2023,10,6)

    = fnOffsetFY(#date(2023,10,6), 10, 1, -1)

     Here is the function (if you have dates before 2000 change the 2000 to be earlier than your earliest date).

    (dt as any, fym as number, fyd as number, offset as number) as any =>
        let
            yyyy = Date.Year(dt),
            m = Date.Month(dt),
            d = Date.Day(dt),
            result = if #date(2000, m, d) >= #date(2000, fym, fyd) then yyyy + offset + 1 else yyyy + offset
        in
            result

    ...and here is an example of its application

    let
    Source = List.Generate( () => [i=1, d=#date(2022,1,1)], each [i] <= 24, each [i=[i]+1, d=Date.AddMonths([d],1)], each [d] ),
    #"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(Source, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), type table [Calendar Date=date], null, ExtraValues.Error),
    #"Add current FY" = Table.AddColumn(#"Converted to Table", "Current FY", each fnOffsetFY([Calendar Date], 10, 1, 0), type number),
    #"Add previous FY" = Table.AddColumn(#"Add current FY", "Previous FY", each fnOffsetFY([Calendar Date], 10, 1, -1), type number),
    #"Add next FY" = Table.AddColumn(#"Add previous FY", "Next FY", each fnOffsetFY([Calendar Date], 10, 1, 1), type number)
    in
    #"Add next FY"

    ...which gives this result (my dates are UK format but the function will work with US locale).

    I've attached an example Excel workbook. 

    Hope this helps

    • Unknowncharacte's avatar
      Unknowncharacte
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      Thank you so much! For some reason, I cannot get it to work, would it be possible to share a sample pbx file?

      • collinsg's avatar
        collinsg
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        Good day Unknowncharacte ,

        Here's the example in a .pbix. If you have dates earlier than 2000 then change the "2000"s in this line to before your earliest date

        result = if #date(2000, m, d) >= #date(2000, fym, fyd) then yyyy + offset + 1 else yyyy + offset

        e.g.

        result = if #date(1920, m, d) >= #date(1920, fym, fyd) then yyyy + offset + 1 else yyyy + offset

        Hope this helps 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    Hi Unknowncharacte ,
    Thanks for collinsg reply.
    You can download the sample pbix file by clicking on the attached file under collinsg  post.

    Best regards,
    Albert He