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Hugo Puflett
Copper Contributor
Jun 18, 2019

Current Averages of Year to Date

Hi Everybody,

 

I am trying to find out the average output of my business for the most recent month and year to date. 

I was wondering how you might make this sort of rolling average. 

Currently I had gone for using the averageifs function but am not too sure about syntax.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If anyone has any advice, that would be greatly appreciated!

 

Best,

 

Hugo

BI & Data Analysis
excel
Formulas and Functions

5 Replies

  • Twifoo's avatar
    Twifoo
    Silver Contributor
    Jun 18, 2019
    In English, your formula returns the average of total output for weeks ending from tomorrow to 360 days from today. Is that what you want to obtain from your formula?
    • Hugo Puflett's avatar
      Hugo Puflett
      Copper Contributor
      Jun 18, 2019

      Twifoo Thank you for the reply. Yes I would like to get the weekly average for the year
      and then also for the month so I assume I would be just changing it to TODAY()-30

       

      Trouble is I'm not actually getting anything

      • Twifoo's avatar
        Twifoo
        Silver Contributor
        Jun 18, 2019

        Hugo Puflett 

        Your formula is trying to return the projected total output for the next 360 days. To return the historical output for the last 1 month before today, your formula should be: 

        =AVERAGEIFS(Table5[Total Output],

        Table5[Week Ending],">="&EDATE(TODAY(),-1),

        Table5[Week Ending],"<="&(TODAY())

        For the last 1 year before today, your formula should be: 

        =AVERAGEIFS(Table5[Total Output],

        Table5[Week Ending],">="&EDATE(TODAY(),-12),

        Table5[Week Ending],"<="&(TODAY())

        Your current formula is returning #DIV/0! error probably because there are no dates in the Week Ending column of Table5, which are after today.