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Variances between columns

    Trying to replicate something that is easy in excel. Each month the business I work for do a 12 month revenue forecast and we compare forecasts. My stakholders want the ability to select any 2 ...
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    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Ok so that tells me that for each ForecastMonth, the First and Last Date are coming back with the same date.  On the brightside, that suggests that the formula overall is working. Its now a matter of understanding why, on a row by row context, we are only seeing a single Submission Month date.

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8 years ago

I believe you need to unpivot the data.  Once you do that, making line comparisions will be much easier using Power BI's time intelligence.

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    Anonymous
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    8 years ago

    the data is not pivoted

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      Anonymous
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      8 years ago

      Can you post an example of the raw data, rather than the pivoted data in that table?

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        8 years ago

        Here is a sample of the data table. I have stripped out alot of other columns not relevant.

         

        Submission is the month they submittedthe forecast (this is across many site and many different contracts).

        ForecastMonth the the months they are actually forecast revenue etc. The full table is large because multiple sites lodge multiple forecasts for multiple contracts.

         

        My matrix table in Power BI already allows the end user to select 2 different submission and it displays forecast by each forecast month and I need to get a variance between forecasts (where both submission have forecasts for same months)

         

        SubmissionForecastMonthSubmissionDateForecast RevenueForecast CostsForecast EBIT
        May-17Jan-1811/05/2017 0:00$1,466,233.25$1,384,001.68$82,231.57
        May-17Feb-1811/05/2017 0:00$1,501,522.70$1,270,457.32$231,065.38
        May-17Mar-1811/05/2017 0:00$1,719,481.61$1,432,636.41$286,845.20
        May-17Apr-1811/05/2017 0:00$1,527,356.19$1,368,436.78$158,919.41
        May-17May-1711/05/2017 0:00$68,981.00$62,123.00$6,858.00
        May-17May-1711/05/2017 0:00$200,214.66$146,207.53$54,007.13
        May-17Jun-1711/05/2017 0:00$272,591.68$116,351.76$156,239.92
        May-17Jul-1711/05/2017 0:00$210,608.62$104,090.21$106,518.41
        May-17Aug-1711/05/2017 0:00$229,882.14$92,260.93$137,621.21
        May-17Sep-1711/05/2017 0:00$196,375.99$76,575.14$119,800.85
        May-17Oct-1711/05/2017 0:00$176,739.40$65,753.22$110,986.18
        May-17Nov-1711/05/2017 0:00$137,618.94$53,922.15$83,696.78
        May-17Dec-1711/05/2017 0:00$94,052.70$42,237.35$51,815.35
        May-17May-1711/05/2017 0:00$725,995.24$619,507.54$106,487.71
        May-17Jun-1711/05/2017 0:00$789,556.54$626,465.64$163,090.90
        May-17Jul-1711/05/2017 0:00$756,131.12$658,472.07$97,659.05
        May-17Aug-1711/05/2017 0:00$792,565.81$705,248.32$87,317.48
        May-17Sep-1711/05/2017 0:00$767,902.42$709,032.08$58,870.34
        May-17Oct-1711/05/2017 0:00$775,464.60$689,307.78$86,156.82
        May-17Nov-1711/05/2017 0:00$806,096.63$709,027.77$97,068.87
        May-17Dec-1711/05/2017 0:00$695,499.97$674,719.24$20,780.73
        May-17Jan-1811/05/2017 0:00$747,766.39$647,761.87$100,004.52
        May-17Feb-1811/05/2017 0:00$717,765.18$597,342.74$120,422.44