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bajimmy1983
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YOY DAX Measure

Hello again community. How are you?

 

Thank all that review my posts and have been helped.

 

Now I need to know why I have this scenario. Maybe I need to complement my Measure with some trick or change it completely.

 

Objective: Show YOY Growth percent without "Hundred part", just the real Increase or decrease percent.

 

Measures I am using:

Prev Year Billing:=CALCULATE(SUM(MiddleOffice16_17[VALUE]);SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR(MiddleOffice16_17[MONTH_CORRECTED]))

 

YOY Billing Growth:=CALCULATE(SUM(MiddleOffice16_17[VALUE]))-[Prev Year Billing]

 

YOY Billing Perc Growth:=DIVIDE([YOY Billing Growth];[Prev Year Billing];0)

 

Correct Calculation, but WRONG visualization:

BILLING MO 2016BILLING MO 2017YOY Billing Perc Growth
 28.424.660 32.624.662114,78%

Obs: I want to show just 14,78% which represents the increase.

 

Wrong Calculation Ex 1:

CLIENTBILLING MO 2016BILLING MO 2017YOY Billing Perc Growth
    
DECATHLON 37.972 37.972100,00%

Obs: The values are the same. So I did not increase.

 

Wrong Calculation Ex 2:

BILLING MO 2016BILLING MO 2017YOY Billing Perc Growth
  4.200.0000,00%

Obs: Increase is 100%, but I cannot show this.

 

Thank you so much again.

Jaderson Almeida
Business Coordinator
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Anonymous
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@bajimmy1983

 

Hi try the following as YOY% measure

 

YOY% = Calculate (If(isblank([Prev Year Billing]),[SUM(MiddleOffice16_17[VALUE])]/[SUM(MiddleOffice16_17[VALUE])],([SUM(MiddleOffice16_17[VALUE])]-[Prev Year Billing])/[Prev Year Billing]) )

 

And define this as type Percentage in the Modelling tab.

 

If this solves your issue please accpet this as Solution and also give KUDOS.

 

Cheers 

 

CheenuSing

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Anonymous
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@bajimmy1983

 

This is perfect. You can use the IFerror function to take care of exceptions.

 

CheenuSing

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Anonymous
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@bajimmy1983

 

If you have made the YOY%error as data type and have used the formula (Current Year - Previous Year) / (current Year) you will always the incremental percentageonly and not 100 + incremental percentage.

 

This happens when your formula is [CurrentYear] / [PreviousYear]

 

Hope this clarifies

 

CheenuSing

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manojp512
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YOY% = Calculate (If(isblank([Prev Year Billing]),[SUM(MiddleOffice16_17[VALUE])]/[SUM(MiddleOffice16_17[VALUE])],([SUM(MiddleOffice16_17[VALUE])]-[Prev Year Billing])/[Prev Year Billing]) )

 

aprtacitizen

Anonymous
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YOY Billing Perc Growth:=DIVIDE([YOY Billing Growth];[Prev Year Billing];0)-1 is the answer
Anonymous
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@bajimmy1983

 

Hi try the following as YOY% measure

 

YOY% = Calculate (If(isblank([Prev Year Billing]),[SUM(MiddleOffice16_17[VALUE])]/[SUM(MiddleOffice16_17[VALUE])],([SUM(MiddleOffice16_17[VALUE])]-[Prev Year Billing])/[Prev Year Billing]) )

 

And define this as type Percentage in the Modelling tab.

 

If this solves your issue please accpet this as Solution and also give KUDOS.

 

Cheers 

 

CheenuSing

Hello @Anonymous, How are you?

 

First, thank you so much for your fast reply. I could see your suggestion just now (Sunday, Oct, 09 - 2:37pm Brazil time).

 

I think we are almost there with your DAX formula. I just got one error in one line of Pivot Table and I complemented the formula like bellow (I do not know if this is the best approach to do so).

 

Actual Calculate Field:

YOY%2:=CALCULATE(IFERROR(IF(ISBLANK([Prev Year Billing]);SUM(MiddleOffice16_17[VALUE])/SUM(MiddleOffice16_17[VALUE]);(SUM(MiddleOffice16_17[VALUE])-[Prev Year Billing])/[Prev Year Billing]);0))

 

Why I am using IFERROR function? Because of this:

SPECIALTYCLIENTBILLING MO 2016BILLING MO 2017YOY% Error
ECSELIS   0#NÚM!
 NEW BUSINESS  0#NÚM!
Total Geral   0#NÚM!

 

Please check if my approach is the best and if you can suggest another better way. If my complement is right, I understand we can set this case as resolved, right?

 

Thank you again.

Jaderson Almeida
Business Coordinator
Anonymous
Not applicable

@bajimmy1983

 

This is perfect. You can use the IFerror function to take care of exceptions.

 

CheenuSing

@Anonymous, 

 

I forgot to mention about showing just the real part of increase (15,8%) and not 115,8%. Do you know how?

 

And taking a further analysis, I have as bellow using actual calculated field. This is not correct, right? Because in this case I understand we did not increase. I will consider an increase of X% when 2017 Billing is higher than 2016 Billing.

 

BILLING MO 2016BILLING MO 2017YOY% Error
 164.624 164.624100,0%
Jaderson Almeida
Business Coordinator
Anonymous
Not applicable

@bajimmy1983

 

If you have made the YOY%error as data type and have used the formula (Current Year - Previous Year) / (current Year) you will always the incremental percentageonly and not 100 + incremental percentage.

 

This happens when your formula is [CurrentYear] / [PreviousYear]

 

Hope this clarifies

 

CheenuSing

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