Circular calculation

[tlh]

Hello,

New to PowerBI and I'm trying to do a circular calculation to determine the amount of budget remaining after expenses are taken. In Excel, this is what I'm looking to accomplish:

I've found a few other posts to similar things

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Circular-reference-calculation/td-p/213415

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Circular-Dependency-on-Calculated-Columns/m-p/1253826#M5526...

But I haven't been able to understand exactly how the measures are working. 

Any help is appricated, and extra point if you can explain the solution like im 5yo.

The output will be used in a burndown-style chart to see how the budget is trending.

TIA,

Trent

[v-angzheng-msft · Accepted solution]

 Hi, @tlh 

To create 2 measures to achieve it:

_Total_Budget = 1700000

This measure indicates how much the total budget is, and you can change it to suit your needs.

Then, to create a calculate column below:

Remaining =
[_Total_Budget]
    - CALCULATE (
        SUM ( 'Table'[Expense] ),
        FILTER ( 'Table', [Date] <= EARLIER ( [Date] ) )
    )

Result:

Please refer to the attachment below for details

Is this the result you want? Hope this is useful to you

Please feel free to let me know If you have further questions

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Zeon Zheng
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[amitchandak]

@tlh , I assuming  you only have one entry of budget

calculate( sum(Table[Budget]) , all(Table)) - calculate(sum(Table[expense]), filter(allselected(Table), Table[Date] <= max(Table[Date])))

if they these are from different table please use Date table

calculate( sum(Table[Budget]) , all(Date)) - calculate(sum(Table[expense]), filter(allselected(Date), Date[Date] <= max(Date[Date])))