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DAX - FX Rate - Use previous month value until current month gets closed

Hi guys,   Title of the post says it all.   Would it be possible to write a measure in DAX that uses the FX rate of the previous month until the current month gets closed ? FX rate for the curre...
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    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Couple of ways to do this, but here's the DAX version ( well mostly Dax..)

     

    1. Need a calendar table.  In the attached PBIX file in Power Query there is a function that will produce the table after you enter in the start and end year. 

     

    2. Load that, and mark that as a Date table. Then be sure to relate that to the Currency Table ( 1 to many )

     

    3. From there, use the Dates from the DimCalendar table for your matrix. There's a column I added in that is marked as End of Month so that i only pulls in end of the month ( since now we have every single date in the years)

     

    4. Then these measures:

    CurrencyRate = SUM ('Currency'[Rate] )
    Prev Month = 
    Var __CurrencyRate = SUM ( Currency[Rate])
    Return 
    
    Var __PrevMonth= CALCULATE( [CurrencyRate], PREVIOUSMONTH(DimCalendar[Date]))
    Return
    
    IF(
        NOT ( ISBLANK( __CurrencyRate)),
        __CurrencyRate,
        __PrevMonth
    )

    Final outut:

    here is the pbix file:

    https://1drv.ms/u/s!Amqd8ArUSwDSzz8NKI8SdFZuxoc5