Year On Year Comparison

[raghavsurya]

Hi,

we have sales, Cost and Profit data for 3 years 2008, 2009 and 2010. For year 2010 the data is available only until May'10 (5 months). When I do a Year on Year comparison for the Year 2010, we need to show data also for 5 months of 2009 for comparision. For example the expression I am using is for Current year is

=num(((Sum({<Year={$(=Max(Year))} >} AAmount )))) if year 2010 is select it will show data for 5 months (jan to May)

for Previous year YTD I am using the expression

num(((Sum({<Year={$(=Max(Year)-1)} >} AAmount ))) this will show the data for the whole of year.

The requirement is if year 2010 is selected the the previous year data for 2009 should also be selected for first 5 months.

How can this be achieved.

Can somebody please help.

Regards,

Raghav

[spsrk_84]

Hi,

Since u need the previous year Amount also i.e suppose if u consider today's date which is Jun-28th u will get the sales happened in this year till that date.but when u consider previous year salesamount u will get all tha sales of that entire year......So what i suggest in the set expression which u had written earlier try to pass the month as well current day so it will be like

year-1=2009,Month<=Month(Today()) ,Day= <=Day(Today())

Like this try to pass the parameters mean while i will try to send the exact expression....

Regards,

Ajay

[#3]

Hi,

Try this way

Variable=max(month(today())

for Previous year =sum(if(year='2008' and month<=Variable,amount))

current year =sum(if(year='2009' and month<=Variable,amount))

i pass the year directly you please change as per your scenario

try this in set analysis as well ,

Thanks

Naren

[tresesco]

Try using InYearToDate() function. This function is specially made for this purpose.