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Keropi79
Frequent Visitor

Variance and margin calculation

Hi,

I tried to do a visualization that looks like the below for the P&L:

Amount (USD)ActualBudgetVar
Revenue         60,000     50,00016.67%
Service         50,000     35,00030.00%
Others         10,000     15,000-50.00%
Cost         48,500     37,000-31.08%
Service         45,000     35,000-28.57%
Others           3,500        2,000-75.00%
Margin         11,500     13,000-13.04%
Margin%19%26%-6.83%

 

With pivot visualization, I manage to get the variance, however, I can't get to calculate Margin and Margin%. Is there any visualization that allows me to have calculation or metric by row?

 

Thanks.

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v-lionel-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @Keropi79 ,

 

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If you have such a fact table, you can use ± to mark income and expenses.

Then, you can create a calculated table.

Table = 
VAR Margin =  
ROW(
    "Amount (USD)", "Margin",
    "Actual", CALCULATE( SUM(Sheet5[Actual]), ALL(Sheet5) ),
    "Budget", CALCULATE( SUM(Sheet5[Budget]), ALL(Sheet5) ),
    "Var", BLANK()
)
RETURN
UNION(
    Sheet5,
    Margin
)

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The same is true for the row ‘Margin%’. I don't know your mathematical calculation logic so I can't calculate it for you.

 

Best regards,
Lionel Chen

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-lionel-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @Keropi79 ,

 

fff10.PNG

If you have such a fact table, you can use ± to mark income and expenses.

Then, you can create a calculated table.

Table = 
VAR Margin =  
ROW(
    "Amount (USD)", "Margin",
    "Actual", CALCULATE( SUM(Sheet5[Actual]), ALL(Sheet5) ),
    "Budget", CALCULATE( SUM(Sheet5[Budget]), ALL(Sheet5) ),
    "Var", BLANK()
)
RETURN
UNION(
    Sheet5,
    Margin
)

fff11.PNG

The same is true for the row ‘Margin%’. I don't know your mathematical calculation logic so I can't calculate it for you.

 

Best regards,
Lionel Chen

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@ you have to create table like this and try

union (
summarize(table1, "Name", "Table1", "Value", sum(Table1[value])),
summarize(table2, "Name", "Table2", "Value", sum(Table2[value])),
summarize(table3, "Name", "Table3", "Value", sum(Table3[value]))
)

 

Union (
	Summarize(filter(Table,Sceniro="Budget"),Table[Business_category],"Name","Budget","Value",Sum(Table[Value])),
	Summarize(filter(Table,Sceniro="Actual"),Table[Business_category],"Name","Actual","Value",Sum(Table[Value])),
	Summarize(Table,Table[Business_category],"Name","Actual","Value",Sumx(Table,if(Sceniro="Actual",-1*Table[Value],1*Table[Value])))
	)
	
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