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chriser
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Average monthly value per invoice with multiple line items per invoice

Hi all, 

 

I have the following table:

 

InvoiceDate     InvoiceNumber     InvoiceLineItem     InvoiceLineItemValue     InvoiceTotalValue

01/01/2019     1                            A                            £20                                 £100

01/01/2019     1                            B                            £30                                 £100

01/01/2019     1                            C                            £50                                 £100

02/01/2019     2                            D                            £40                                 £40

03/10/2019     3                            E                            £60                                  £200

03/01/2019     3                            A                            £20                                 £200

03/01/2019     3                            F                            £120                                £200

etc...

 

I would like to create a simple Clustered Column Chart, where I can show Average Invoice Value by InvoiceDate (Year, Quarter, Month, Day).

 

Thanks!

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parry2k
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@chriser best practice is to add a calendar/date dimension in your model, there are many post on how to add one either using DAX or Power Query.

 

- set relationship on date from date diemsnion with your invoice table

- add new measure called AVERAGE( Invoice[InvoiceTotalValue])

- add bar chart, put Year-> Quarter ->Month->Date on x-axis and average measure on value

 

now you can drill up and down to each level and see the average by invoice.



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Thanks @parry2k, if I understand your answer, the problem with AVERAGE formula is that it will average all InvoiceTotalValues but it will count all of them per each InvoiceLineItem.

 

In my example if I have multiple invoices per day with different InvoiceTotalValue, number of InvoiceLineItems will make a difference to the average, which will give me a wrong average.

 

For example:

InvoiceDate     InvoiceNumber     InvoiceLineItem     InvoiceLineItemValue     InvoiceTotalValue

01/01/2019     1                            A                            £20                                 £100

01/01/2019     1                            B                            £30                                 £100

01/01/2019     1                            C                            £50                                 £100

01/01/2019     1                            A                            £40                                 £200

01/01/2019     1                            B                            £60                                 £200

01/01/2019     1                            C                            £100                               £200

 

 

Average is 150

 

but for:

InvoiceDate     InvoiceNumber     InvoiceLineItem     InvoiceLineItemValue     InvoiceTotalValue

01/01/2019     1                            A                            £20                                 £100

01/01/2019     1                            B                            £30                                 £100

01/01/2019     1                            C                            £50                                 £100

01/01/2019     1                            A                            £40                                 £200

01/01/2019     1                            B                            £60                                 £200

01/01/2019     1                            D                            £80                                £200

01/01/2019     1                            E                            £20                                 £200

 

Average is: 157.14

 

So how do I get a real InvoiceTotalValue Average independant from how many InvoiceLineItems are per Invoice?

 

Thanks

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