Find the Variance of Yearly Value

[Anonymous]

Hi, 

I am wanting to create a visualization that shows the total value of sales per month for this year and last year, and also the variance. 

Could someone help me out with the steps I would take to achieve this succesfully?

[v-shex-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

You can use PREVIOUS YEAR function to get the previous year value.

Tables: DateTable(Date), Fact(ID,DATE, VALUE)

Relationship: Date to Date(One to many), both cross filter direction.

Measures:

Get previous year value.

PY = CALCULATE(SUM('Fact'[Value]),SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR('DateTable'[Date]))

Calcualte the diff between current year and previous year

Diff = [PY]- SUM('Fact'[Value]) 

Create a matrix visual to display the result:

DateTable[Date] to Rows, switch to hierarchy mode and keep year and month, Fact[VALUE] and two measures to Values fields.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng