A common accounting task is to consolidate the financial results of subsidiary companies into combined results of a parent company. A parent company can have one or multiple subsidiaries. Each subsidiary can also have one or multiple subsidiaries beneath it.…
How often do you think about quality checking your reports? Sounds about as fun as listening to a lecture from Ferris Bueller’s professor, right? Why Test? Quality testing is one of those things that few of us enjoy but is…
Not long after I started my career in FP&A, I became interested in KPI development. It’s a natural progression I think: you get the budgeting, forecasting, and reporting under control, and then you begin to dig a little deeper. When…
Recently I was teaching a private course on Power BI to one of our clients. We were learning about the ALL() function and how to use it to get % of total calculations. After demonstrating how to get an individual…
Figure 1 View outside of my home office window May 2nd, 2018 Fairbanks, Alaska. Intro Hello, my name is Matthew Brice and I am guest broadcasting from my home office (via tape delay) in Fairbanks, Alaska. PPPro put out a…
I read this blog (and Matt Allington, and Ken Puls) pretty religiously. But PowerPivotPro is probably my favorite because it deals with a lot of real-world situations, not just technical solutions. So, I’m going to continue that theme and…
In Part I, we used the query editor and the M List functions to generate all the possible combinations of five and seven cards from a standard deck. To score all the possible combinations of seven cards (133M possible hands…
Intro Power Query (aka “Get and Transform” in Excel, aka the “Query Editor” in Power BI Desktop) is a powerful ETL tool, more powerful than you might expect from something native to Excel (also a native part of the free…
Last month I saw a puzzle posted on fivethirtyeight.com about poker hand probabilities and, like with many things these days, wondered how I could solve it with PowerBI. I had been curious to learn more about the M list functions,…
Humans like turning a few things into many things. Investing $1 to get $10 . . . growing saplings into oaks . . . taking two rabbits and creating a fluffle. This post will show you how to do…