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Hello,
I have a table that shows spending for different center-accounts across time. It looks like this:
The Actual Spend column is a calculated column. I also calculated as a measure.
I would like to have a visual that shows the top 20 center-accounts with the biggest change in spend from month to month. So center-account 1234 it would take 25-90= -65 and if that was one of the top center-accounts for change it would list it in a visual with what the change was. Ideally I'd like to be able to pick a past month, say from 5 months ago, and have this still work but I would take it if it only worked for the latest month and its previous month. I would also like for it to show top 20 biggest change positive and negative.
Thanks in advance,
Steve
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Hi,
For what i understood you need the difference from last day of the month and first day of the month, for each month, for the column [Actual Spending].
So, i created two colums, Month_Year, and Amplitude, it goes like this
Month_Year = MONTH(Plan1[Calendar Date]) & "/" & YEAR(Plan1[Calendar Date])
Amplitude =
VAR SPENDING_LAST_DAY = CALCULATE(
SUM(Plan1[Actual Spending]),
FILTER(
ALL(Plan1),
EARLIER(Plan1[Center-Account]) = Plan1[Center-Account] && EARLIER(Plan1[Month_Year]) = Plan1[Month_Year] && ENDOFMONTH(Plan1[Calendar Date]) = Plan1[Calendar Date]
)
)
VAR SPENDING_FIRST_DAY = CALCULATE(
SUM(Plan1[Actual Spending]),
FILTER(
ALL(Plan1),
EARLIER(Plan1[Center-Account]) = Plan1[Center-Account] && EARLIER(Plan1[Month_Year]) = Plan1[Month_Year] && STARTOFMONTH(Plan1[Calendar Date]) = Plan1[Calendar Date]
)
)
RETURN SPENDING_LAST_DAY-SPENDING_FIRST_DAY
The result
with this column you can do all of the other things like a top 20, and a calendar filter would work in any interval you want.
Theres probably a cleaner way to do it but, i hope that helps.
Hi,
For what i understood you need the difference from last day of the month and first day of the month, for each month, for the column [Actual Spending].
So, i created two colums, Month_Year, and Amplitude, it goes like this
Month_Year = MONTH(Plan1[Calendar Date]) & "/" & YEAR(Plan1[Calendar Date])
Amplitude =
VAR SPENDING_LAST_DAY = CALCULATE(
SUM(Plan1[Actual Spending]),
FILTER(
ALL(Plan1),
EARLIER(Plan1[Center-Account]) = Plan1[Center-Account] && EARLIER(Plan1[Month_Year]) = Plan1[Month_Year] && ENDOFMONTH(Plan1[Calendar Date]) = Plan1[Calendar Date]
)
)
VAR SPENDING_FIRST_DAY = CALCULATE(
SUM(Plan1[Actual Spending]),
FILTER(
ALL(Plan1),
EARLIER(Plan1[Center-Account]) = Plan1[Center-Account] && EARLIER(Plan1[Month_Year]) = Plan1[Month_Year] && STARTOFMONTH(Plan1[Calendar Date]) = Plan1[Calendar Date]
)
)
RETURN SPENDING_LAST_DAY-SPENDING_FIRST_DAY
The result
with this column you can do all of the other things like a top 20, and a calendar filter would work in any interval you want.
Theres probably a cleaner way to do it but, i hope that helps.
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