How to add previous month sales to current month sales

[sergioivanov]

Hello all,

I'm trying to compare the YTD sales with the goals on YTD format. This is the idea that I want to present:

I can make a table adding the goal of each month, which then I can graph as the blue line. The table below:

The problem I'm finding is how to add what was sold in Oct (in the image) with Nov, so those sales stack up in Nov, the same with Dec (which should be Oct, Nov and Dec stacked), and so on.

The idea of the graph is to show how deviated the sales are resulting against the final goal amount.

I tried with TOTALYTD, but it won't add up the months' results.

Is there any other function? Or other visualization to achieve this?

Thank you. 

[v-cazheng-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @sergioivanov 

You may try this Measure.

YTD venta = CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Venta]),FILTER(ALL('Table'),'Table'[Px]<=MAX('Table'[Px])))

The result should look like this:

For more details, please refer to the attached pbix file.

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[ValtteriN]

Hi,

For YTD calculation you can use this pattern: CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Value]),DATESYTD('Calendar'[Date])).

I also recommend checking out SQLBI's article on running totals: https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/computing-running-totals-in-dax/

I hope these will help you to solve your issue and if they do consider accepting this post as a solution and giving it a thumbs up!

[sergioivanov]

Hi ValtteriN,

Thank you for your reply, but that pattern brings the same results as a TOTALYTD.

What is needed is a calculation that can add the previous months sales to the current month:

October should be 39; November should be 181; December 220, as it shows in the third column.

Thank you!