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CrispinC
New Contributor II
4 years ago
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Calculate variance percentages for different rows

Hi I'm struggling to add lines to show Gross Margin % ((Total income less product related costs)/Total income)*100), overhead as a percentage of total income etc. I've tried using Getdatacell ref...
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  • PeterFu's avatar
    PeterFu
    4 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Maybe it's better to create a Gross Margin account and set it up with DynamicCalc as Account Type. Then use a member formula to calculate the Gross Margin, 'Calculate the Percentage
    Return api.Data.GetDataCell("Divide(A#61000:O#Top,A#60999:O#Top) * 100") - This is from Golfstream application.

    If you use the Admin Tool to create the formula, you could easily include the formula to do the Drill-down on the accounts involved in the calculation. I would say that is a better way of doing it.

     

    Peter

     

     

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aricgresko
Contributor III
4 years ago

DynamicCalc type account would be the best way.  This also helps to eliminate the potential need of a column or row override depending how the rest of the report looks.  Another added benefit is end users could pull that account in a Quick View or XFGetCell without doing excel math.