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eburg
Frequent Visitor

Percent Change Help

Hi- looking for help on how to calculate a simple year over year percent change. The first table shows the totals for each period in three fiscal years. Table two uses a measure to try and calculate % change. That measure is inserted below for reference. Obviously it's not working right as the percentages are way off. 

 

So for example the % change in the most recent period 9 would be 7.99% (9,242 vs 8,558 last year). and it's calculating at 20.2% percent. Any help with this measure or a different solution is greatly appreciated. Thanks.  

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @eburg ,

 

You are using ALL('Fiscal Calendar'). In my opinion, that will ignore the [Fiscal Period] filter.

You could try using ALLSELECTED() instead.

Or add another condition: [Fiscal Period] = selectedvalue([Fiscal Period]) in the filter.

If it still doesn't work, please share the pbix so that we could test the formula.

 

Best Regards,

Jay

eburg
Frequent Visitor

My question on that example is I'm clear on why that additional table is needed. 

I did not have any problem with your Calculation, if you want I can share my PBIX ...

 

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Total Sales LY =
VAR LY = SELECTEDVALUE(Orders[Year of Order Date],1)-1
VAR PY_AMT=
CALCULATE(sum(Orders[Profit]),
Orders[Year of Order Date]=LY
)
VAR RESULT=(SUM(Orders[Profit])-PY_AMT)/PY_AMT
RETURN RESULT
 
Regards,
Ritesh
ribisht17
Super User
Super User

@eburg 

 

Please check this example Solved: Calculating Percent Change - Microsoft Power BI Community

 

Regards,

Ritesh

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