How to calculate raise percentage?

[#1]

Hi All,

I was wondering how to calculate the raise percentage between 2 figures?

Take an example the revenue for this month is A,last year's is B. How to calculate the raise percentage?

Not sure A and B are negative or not. How to handle it?

[Jason_Michaelides]

Search in this forum for "This year vs Last year" or similar - lots of examples of how to do this kind of comparison.