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kristenk14
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How to set my closing balance for the previous month as the opening balance for the next month

Good Day,

 

I have created the following measure to calculate the closing balance for each month, since the closing balance isn't necessarily on the last day of the month,

closing_balance (EoM) = CALCULATE([flow_value], LASTNONBLANK(PARALLELPERIOD(investor_flows[date], 0, MONTH), [flow_value] ), investor_flows[flow_type] = "Balance")
 
It works perfectly, how can I then use this as the opening balance for next month?
 
Thank you
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kristenk14
Frequent Visitor

Will the formula work if the closing balance of the previous month is not the very end of the month, but just the last day for which there is a balnce calculated?

 

kristenk14
Frequent Visitor

Hi, @amitchandak 

 

I tried it,

opening_balance = OPENINGBALANCEMONTH([flow_value], investor_flows[date], investor_flows[flow_type] ="Balance")
 
and it is not working. Am I doing something wrong with the formula?
amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@kristenk14 , use openingbalancemonth month

 

refer openingbalancemonth,openingbalancequarter, openingbalanceyear : https://youtu.be/6lzYOXI5wfo

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