Subtract the value of a measure by the value of a column

[Anonymous]

Hey 🙂
I have a table with the following structure:

Sector	Budget	Year
AAA	6.000	2021
BBB	13.000	2021
CCC	8.000	2021

I also have a measure that calculates the total sum of expenses for each sector (this data coming from another table).
I want a measure that do the Budget - Total Spent, for each Sector,  but I don't know how to subtract the value of a column by a measure.

Can someone help me?

[v-rzhou-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous 

I think you can subtract the value of a measure by the value of a column by another measure.

Here I build a sample.

Budget Table:

Expense Table:

Expense measure:

Measure = 
CALCULATE (
    SUM ( Expense[Expense] ),
    FILTER (
        Expense,
        Expense[ Year] = MAX ( Budget[ Year] )
            && Expense[Sector  ] = MAX ( Budget[Sector  ] )
    )
)

Expense = 
SUMX(Budget,[Measure])

Subtract measure:

Result = SUM(Budget[Budget  ]) - [Expense]

Result is as below.

Best Regards,

Rico Zhou

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Best Regards,

[amitchandak]

@Anonymous ,

You need to have a common sector and year/date table , Joining back with these tables

Using the common table you can analyze data together (Measure from both tables)

Sector Table = distinct(union(distinct(Budget[Sector]),distinct(Actual[Sector])))

Bridge Table: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkf35Roman8&list=PLPaNVDMhUXGaaqV92SBD5X2hk3TMNlHhb&index=19

In case your data are at a different level

Distributing/Allocating the Yearly Target(Convert to Daily Target): Measure ( Daily/YTD): Magic of CLOSINGBALANCEYEAR With TOTALYTD/DATESYTD: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Power-BI-Distributing-Allocating-the-Yearly-Target-Convert-to/ba-p/1476400