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Dealing with budgets
Hi v-zhangti
That's one of my Excels (I have remove a lot of rows and numbers may not have sense because they're randomly generated). I have one per year so: Budget 2023.xlsx, Budget 2024.xlsx, and so on in the same folder. Then, inside the example file there are only two centers, but normally I have over 20 centers.
Accounts are composed in this way (xxx-cc-....) where xxx are the codes for Spanish account, cc match with the center's number and the rest are generated from 1.
In Power BI, when I read all these files, I perform a merge to have only one table with this structure in columns:
- Year: which is got by reading the filename and removing "budget"
- Center: which is read from getting two first characters of the Excel sheet name.
- Accounting account
- Description
- Monthly Budget
- Daily per occupation
- Monthly per occupation
My problem is that with this structure, I cannot deal with changes in budget. For instance, if I now need to change incomes2 for center1, I will have to overwrite the value, but I don't have any possibility to keep previous value up to October.
Is there any workaround? Or it is just impossible? I was thinking about any way of keep track of starting date for budget and the date on which is changed but I don't want to replicate all budget just for a change in a line...
I hope to have explained myself!
Thanks in advance.