Easy Profit & Loss (and other account) statements in PowerBI and Excel – Part2
Welcome to part 2 of my series of easy Profit & Loss and other account statements in Power BI and Excel. In the first part I introduced the general principle of creating asymmetric shaped reports...
View ArticleComfort Functions for Easy Profit & Loss statements in Power BI and Excel –...
Here comes some long awaited comfort functions for part 2 of my easy P&L series. In the first section I’ve presented the general principle on how to work with a structure using an...
View ArticleGuide for switching Signs in Power BI and Power Pivot (bypassing Unary...
In finance & accounting, you very rarely report the figures with the signs of their source systems, but switch (certain) signs according to different needs. Instead of using unary operators for it,...
View ArticleKPIs in Easy Profit and Loss for PowerBI
Welcome to the last part of my Easy Profit & Loss series where I will cover KPIs in rows & columns: 1) KPIs in columns Show all your figures as a percent of turnover for example: Nice &...
View ArticleHow to open a complex JSON record in Power BI and Power Query
Today I’ll show you a very useful technique how to deal with a JSON record that contains a wild mixture of different elements like this: If you click on one of the expandable elements, their content...
View ArticleRight Aligning Text in Power BI: Format Improvements for Easy Profit&Loss...
Edit 14-Dec-2017: Now that we can right-align text measures in PowerBI, a SWITCH-measure like here: http://www.thebiccountant.com/2017/04/24/kpis-in-easy-profit-and-loss-for-powerbi/#comment-719 is the...
View ArticleDate.DatesBetween to retrieve dates between 2 dates in Power BI and Power Query
Today I’m sharing a handy function with you that allows you to retrieve all or just a couple of dates between 2 given dates: Date.DatesBetween. Usage This function takes 3 parameters: From- or...
View ArticleParent-Child Hierarchies with multiple parents in Power BI with Power Query
I’ve written about a method to dynamically flatten parent-child-hierarchies also with multiple parents some while ago here. I’ve actually used this approach for Bill-of-materials cases and refined that...
View ArticleCompare Power BI files with Power BI Comparer tool
Have you ever wanted to compare a version of a Power BI file with a previous one? … In the unlikely case that you haven’t yet, just wait until the auditors are in again – my new Power BI Comparer tool...
View ArticleAnalyzing events with a duration in DAX – further simplification
Alberto Ferrari has recently published a very smart concept how to analyze events with a duration in DAX, which you should read here, if you haven’t done yet. It simplifies the necessary DAX-syntax and...
View Article