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P&L + financial statement account grouping

Hi,

 

Does anyone have any good links or tips to creating a good P&L account grouping structure? I am thinking that it could be a help file in Excel, but what is important is that it takes into consideration also sorting, changing of negative or positive values if needed and if the P&L grouping is a full value or a percentage.

 

This is my Excel spreadsheet which I was thinking of using to create a P&L account grouping structure:

 

CompanyAccountLineAccountGroupingLineFromToReportTypeSignFormatLevelGroupingLevelTypeSorting
1000Revenues 30003999PL11111
1000Costs 40004999PL-11112
1000TotalRevenues+Costs  PL1221

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The purpose of the columns are as follows:

 

Company - Company Key (can be used together with Account Key if there are reports from different companies)

AccountLine - Lowest level and has a range for accounts which creates an interval to match accounts between

AccountGroupingLine - Higher level, has to be hierarchy or joined to the lower level (notice that it is GroupingLevel2)

From - From account number

To - To account number

ReportType - Value to isolate which report type it is in measures

Sign - Used to correct negative or positive values if needed in front end

FormatLevel  - Can be used to do shading on background of rows in reports

GroupingLevel - Grouping 1 is the lowest level, Grouping Level 2 should be in a hierarchy above 1, and as you get account lines that needs a higher level, you incrementally add values

Type - Used in SWITCH statements if it is a percentage or whole number

Sorting - Row Sorting of the Account Lines.

 

Anyone seen or know of any examples of this that they can share? 

 

Or else know how I can:

 

  • Store MAX values into parameters and use that in loops in Power BI?
  • Load a table based on a previously loaded table?
  • Use IF statements inside a loop in Power BI?

Any help is appreciated!


Best.

 

Ali A

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    Hi aliahmand, 

    If possible, could you plesae inform me more detailed information (such as your sample data and your expected output)? Then I will help you more correctly.

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