topic SAS VA YOY PROFIT VARIANCE using a filter in SAS Visual Analytics

SAS VA YOY PROFIT VARIANCE using a filter

chrisjab — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 18:02:45 GMT

Hello All,

I am trying to incorporate a YOY Profit Variance formula in cross table using the following data:

Age Group: 18-25, 26-35, 36-55, 55+

Profit: $DOLLAR

Activity Date

Current/Previous Year Flag: CY, PY

My ideal output would be:

CY - Current Yr PY - Current Yr Var.

Age 18-25 $ 146,888 $ 104,138 41%

Age 26-35 $ 91,169 $ 111,672 -18%

Age 36-55 $ 120,281 $ 86,284 39%

Age 55+ $ 144,021 $ 92,877 55%

Total $ 502,359 $ 394,971 27%

I tried the following formula however; it did not work

[(IF Current/Previous Year Flag = CY

RETURN PROFIT) /

(IF Current/Previous Year Flag = PY

RETURN PROFIT)] -1

format: PERCENT

Can someone help please?

Thank you,

Re: SAS VA YOY PROFIT VARIANCE using a filter

ShannonMoore — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 19:53:47 GMT

CJ, Did you try to nest the formula? My example is: ( 'Sales Rep Actual'n - 'Sales Rep Target'n ) / 'Sales Rep Target'n and set the format to Percent. I have included a couple of screenshots. Shannon PS You MAY need to check the aggregation.

Re: SAS VA YOY PROFIT VARIANCE using a filter

Renato_sas — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 19:57:44 GMT

To complement what @ShannonMoore said, you would need to derive the equivalent of Shannon's Sales Rep Actual and Sales Rep Target. In your case, those would be Profit CY and Profit PY, defined respectively as:

IF Current/Previous Year Flag = CY

RETURN Profit

ELSE missing

IF Current/Previous Year Flag = PY

RETURN Profit

ELSE missing

Best,

Renato