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bhmiller89
Helper V
Helper V

Calculate Percent Change of a Measure

I have a measure called EHR (effective hourly rate) which = Sum(revenue)/Sum(labor hours)

 

I put the measure into a matrix using the profitability date.

 

I need a way to calculate the %change date over date (preferably Quarter over Quarter) but I don't know how to do this without the EHR data being in a column. 

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Eric_Zhang
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee


@bhmiller89 wrote:

I have a measure called EHR (effective hourly rate) which = Sum(revenue)/Sum(labor hours)

 

I put the measure into a matrix using the profitability date.

 

I need a way to calculate the %change date over date (preferably Quarter over Quarter) but I don't know how to do this without the EHR data being in a column. 


@bhmiller89

You may need 3 measures and one calendar table. See more details in the attached pbix file.

 

EHR = Sum('datatable'[revenue])/Sum('datatable'[labor hours])

EHR Last Quarter = CALCULATE([EHR], PREVIOUSQUARTER('calendar'[Date]))

%change = [EHR]-[EHR Last Quarter]

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OpenDataLab
Helper II
Helper II

I would refer you to this article from the guys from sqlbi.  This has a lot of good advice on writing time intelligence calculations.

 

http://www.daxpatterns.com/time-patterns/

 

Let me know how you get on.

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