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WillTickel
Frequent Visitor

Fiscal Year Calculated Columns

I'm certain there's a more elegant (and correct) way of doing this, but I'm trying to create a calculated column which gives each date a corresponding fiscal year label e..g "FY16/17"


The formula I'm curently working on is

 

Financial Year = IF(DATESBETWEEN, Dates[Dates], DATE(2016,4,1) , DATE (2017,3, 31)) , "FY16/17",

 

IF(DATESBETWEEN, Dates[Dates], DATE(2017,4,1) , DATE (2018,3, 31)) , "FY17/18",

 

IF(DATESBETWEEN, Dates[Dates], DATE(2018,4,1) , DATE (2019,3, 31)) , "FY18/19",  0)

 

It keeps responding with an error message, can anyone guide me in the right direction?

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v-ljerr-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @WillTickel,

 

Based on my test, the formula below should also work in your scenario.Smiley Happy

 

Financial Year =
VAR fy =
    IF (
        MONTH ( 'Dates'[Dates] ) <= 3,
        VALUE ( FORMAT ( 'Dates'[Dates], "YY" ) ) - 1,
        VALUE ( FORMAT ( 'Dates'[Dates], "YY" ) )
    )
RETURN
    CONCATENATE ( "FY", CONCATENATE ( fy, CONCATENATE ( "/", fy + 1 ) ) )

 

Regards

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v-ljerr-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @WillTickel,

 

Based on my test, the formula below should also work in your scenario.Smiley Happy

 

Financial Year =
VAR fy =
    IF (
        MONTH ( 'Dates'[Dates] ) <= 3,
        VALUE ( FORMAT ( 'Dates'[Dates], "YY" ) ) - 1,
        VALUE ( FORMAT ( 'Dates'[Dates], "YY" ) )
    )
RETURN
    CONCATENATE ( "FY", CONCATENATE ( fy, CONCATENATE ( "/", fy + 1 ) ) )

 

Regards

Anonymous
Not applicable

I have written this code and am getting the error - Cannot convert value " of type text to type number. 

 
 
Fiscal Year =
VAR FY =
IF (
MONTH ( Table1[DATE] ) <= 3,
VALUE ( FORMAT ( Table1[Date], "YY" ) ) - 1,
VALUE ( FORMAT ( Table1[Date], "YY" ) )
)
RETURN
CONCATENATE ( "FY ", FY + 1 )
 
Please help!
Anonymous
Not applicable

Figured it out - the code works! However there was a blank cell in the [Date] column - it has over 5 years of data so yeah!

Switch can also do the same:

 

SWITCH(TRUE(),

Month([Date])<4,YEAR([Date])-1 &"-"&YEAR([Date]),

YEAR([Date])&"-"&YEAR([Date])+1)

 

Thx

Many Thanks @v-ljerr-msft. It worked perfectly!

dedelman_clng
Community Champion
Community Champion

DATESBETWEEN is a function that returns a table, not a true/false as to whether or not a date falls between two dates

 

I think this should work for what you're trying to do:

 

Financial Year =
IF (
    AND (
        Dates[Dates] >= DATE ( 201641 ),
        Dates[Dates] <= DATE ( 2017331 )
    ),
    "FY16/17",
    IF (
        AND (
            Dates[Dates] >= DATE ( 201741 ),
            Dates[Dates] <= DATE ( 2018331 )
        ),
        "FY17/18",
        IF (
            AND (
                Dates[Dates] >= DATE ( 201841 ),
                Dates[Dates] >= DATE ( 2019331 )
            ),
            "FY18/19",
            0
        )
    )
)

 

Hope this helps,

David

RMDNA
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Could you post the error message?

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