Period over Period Beast Mode

MarcusJ223

I am trying to create a beast mode that will show me the change from last year's sales to this year's sales. I need it for a table. If anyone has any solutions, that would be amazing.

JasonAltenburg

Hello @MarcusJ223

I'd suggest taking a look at this KB Article:

https://domo-support.domo.com/s/article/360043430133?language=en_US

Particularly the Calculating Variance Variance CY-PY and Variance % ((CY - PY)/PY) as these sound like what you're looking to accomplish.

From the article:

Calculating Variance — Variance CY-PY

Use the following code to create a calculation for the variance Current Year - Past Year:

(
SUM(CASE WHEN YEAR(`MyDateColumn`) = YEAR(CURRENT_DATE()) THEN `Amount` ELSE 0 END)
- SUM(CASE WHEN YEAR(`MyDateColumn`) = YEAR(CURRENT_DATE()) - 1 THEN `Amount` ELSE 0 END)
)

Variance % ((CY - PY)/PY)

Use the following code to create a calculation for the variance % ((Current Year - Past Year) / Past Year):

(
(SUM(CASE WHEN YEAR(`MyDateColumn`) = YEAR(CURRENT_DATE()) THEN `Amount` ELSE 0 END)
- SUM(CASE WHEN YEAR(`MyDateColumn`) = YEAR(CURRENT_DATE()) - 1 THEN `Amount` ELSE 0 END)
)
/ NULLIF(SUM(CASE WHEN YEAR(`MyDateColumn`) = YEAR(CURRENT_DATE()) - 1 THEN `Amount` ELSE 0 END), 0)
)