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Subtract columns

Hello,

 

My end goal is to make an automated reporting procedure, where I will copy/paste every month a new excel file (trial balance of each month) on a folder and then the outcome will appear on a Power BI dashboard in a matrix format where each column is a month and other columns are Q1,Q2,6-month, etc. Each row represents balance sheet's account numbers. The original files have >100k rows/accounts and the date is in a format D/M/YYYY.

 

My problem is that the trial balance has cummulative numbers, so I have to substract each column to have the outcome for a specific month i.e. Mar - Feb = Change in March. Any idea on how can I tackle this problem?

 

Unfortunatelly, I cannot share my original data so I created the power query table and the reporting matrix on the dashboard with dummy numbers.

 

Thanks in advance! 

 

Cheers,

Alex

 

 

 

Matrix Report.png

 

 

power query table.png

 

 

 

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It looks like you are trying to create a calculated measure. You need to do this as a COLUMN. 

 

See attached pbix file below signature for reference on what I have done. 


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