P3 Adaptive
Quick Recap: We Created a Separate “Periods” Table In last week’s post, I explained how PowerPivot can very easily help you solve the “Budget vs. Actuals” problem or any other problem where you have data sets
Some of you know that I’ve been writing a series of articles for the Chartered Institute of Management Accounts, aka CIMA
In this post, I’ll explain how to create a dynamic measure that works out whether a subtotal is needed and displays that subtotal accordingly. I’ll be using the report that was created as part of the Cash Flow Statement post.
There’s few, if any, reports that I consider to be more important than the Cash Flow Statement.
I’ve always been a firm believer that moving averages probably give a better insight into trends within a business than a simple trend line associated to a set of values such as monthly sales
PART 1 and PART 2 of this series on Profit and Loss posts covered the basic layout of the P&L together with some time intelligence and filtering to display relevant numbers to cover actual, budget and prior year for both a selected period and the equivalent year to date. This was all based around the core measure referred to as Cascade_Value_All.
In my recent post, Profit & Loss-The Art of the Cascading Subtotals, I went through a basic P&L layout with some relatively complex DAX measures to display and hide row headings as appropriate together with calculating accurate values.
Using Time Intelligence in PowerPivot can appear scary when you first start using it and I’ve seen some weird and wonderful ways of attacking it, some that look like we’re calling into question the validity of the global phenomenon that is time and others that are quite simply brilliant.
I occasionally look through the logs of what people were Googling (or Binging etc.) when they found their way to the blog.