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tlh
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5 years ago
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Circular calculation

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:   ...
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    v-angzheng-msft
    5 years ago

     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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v-angzheng-msft
Community Support
5 years ago

 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
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.