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Jan 28, 2020

Please Help: Summarizing 4 Tabs into One Sheet for Ownership %, Investor Name, Quarter Info, Entity

Hi,

 

Could someone please help me set up a summary sheet to show a list of investor names with greater than 10% ownership in 2 entities? Please see the attached file for how the source data is set up in each tab. I am open to any suggestions (even related to the formatting). 

 

Background

  • There are 4 source tabs I would need to pull the information from.
  • I am hoping that the summary tab can show the names and ownership % for each investor that owned more than 10% of the total share in each entity, each quarter.
  • "4Q19" tab has an extra column.
  • Each tab includes the ownership information for 2 different entities (and the info for 2nd entity starts at varying rows).
  • The investors vary in each tab (some are recurring and some are new that quarter)

Any suggestion is welcome. Please help!  

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  • mathetes's avatar
    mathetes
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    ExcelSmart 

     

    I agree with Abiola1 and, in fact, have implemented his idea here, resulting in the Pivot Table shown below which, I think, shows the data you want. I also want to make some follow-up comments having to do with how you get the data in the first place, and why Abiola1's suggestion is so very much on target.

    First, though, here's how a Pivot Table can display the reorganized data (I changed your two corp names to ABC and DEF just for the sake of clarity; the data is otherwise as you had it):

    And I hasten to add, this is the raw PivotTable; it's possible to reformat it so as to eliminate the redundant Total columns, for one thing. But I wasn't going for perfectly pretty; just showing how Excel can summarize data for you.

     

    So why put all your data into one sheet? Why was that Abiola1's right-off-the-bat recommendation?

     

    One of the fundamental principles behind good Excel design is to use tables of data whenever possible. Excel has wonderful tools to analyze data. Our problem as human beings is that we often start to impose the analysis--i.e., the breaking apart into manageable chunks--at the input end of things, and then look for ways to summarize. That's sort of what you'd done here, having separate tabs for each quarter's ownership stats. No need for that, though, if you just add a column to the single table approach.

     

    Excel (good database design, actually) would say to us "Rethink how you store and define the needed data, so that it can be all assembled into one table if at all possible." There are all kinds of reasons for this, and of course there are exceptions as well; but let's leave those for an advanced conversation.

     

    Once you have all your data in a single database, it's easy for Excel to break it apart in summary ways. The :Pivot Table is one, and a very useful one. There are others.

     

    Some questions for you: given that this displays records of ownership percentages, are the actual dollar figures of total capitalization constant, or are new shares being issued along the way, such that $100,000 of ownership might be 10% one quarter, stay constant, but be only 5% the next? Would it be better to store raw data on dollars of investment and do the calculations of percentage on the fly?

     

    [I have no idea of the appropriate answers here, truly; just asking what the underlying reality is, how "reliable over time" the percentages are, and so forth. In short, this spreadsheet, reorganized as Abiola1 suggested, is a good demonstration of how Pivot Tables could display for you the kind of summary of your data that you wanted. But it may or may not be dealing with the underlying data in the most robust way--so I'm basically just asking a "big picture" question, recognizing you are closer to it and may have thought all this through.... 

     

    The quarterly percentages themselves are a summary of a bunch of transactions, to put it another way: might it make sense to create a database that records all those basic transactions and then create the summary of ownership percentages from those more "raw" records?

    • ExcelSmart's avatar
      ExcelSmart
      Copper Contributor

      mathetes 

       

      My data is actually much bigger (more like 100+ columns/rows, and the percentage column is in columns L and M in most sheets, but not all) than what I shared here, and we receive this set of data from another team, so we are trying to develop a way to be able to keep the original tabs we received as is. 

       

      So, that being said, would there be a formula that we can use to come up with a summary tab?

      Thank you!

      • mathetes's avatar
        mathetes
        Silver Contributor

        ExcelSmart 

         

        Depending on how frequently those original sheets are received, how frequently you need to produce the desired summary, etc., etc., it strikes me there are at least two routes:

        1. Look into Power Query as a way to combine disparate layouts (I believe that could work, but am NOT conversant with that tool as of now)(or I think there's something called Power Pivot as well) 
        2. Consider redesigning the process by which the information is assembled and combined so that the Pivot Table could still be the solution (I am conversant with getting people to re-think processes, even while recognizing it can take some time to do so)

        I truly don't think that formulas per se are the solution to your situation. That's why you've been referred to the Pivot Table, but you're right that IT presumes a consistent layout. Nevertheless, I have the impression from what I've read that Power Query can be used (in effect) to create an intermediate level of coherence/consistency from which a Pivot Table or something resembling it can be formed. But I'll have to defer to those who know the tool.

  • Hello,

    Based on the Excel workbook attached, you don't need 4 sheet tabs.

    Kindly combine all the data in the four sheets into a single sheet.

    You can have the following columns in the single sheet:
    Date, Investor Name, Entity Name, Month, Year, Ownership (with values)

    Then, you can use Pivot Table to summarize the data.

    To get the Ownership %, drag and drop Ownership into the PT Values area and Month into the Rows area.

    To get the Quarter, click on Group Selection and check "Quarter" only

    Then, right click on any value in the Sum of Ownership and select Show Values As % of Grand Total

    That will be your Summary Sheet
    • ExcelSmart's avatar
      ExcelSmart
      Copper Contributor

      Abiola1 

       

      My data is actually much bigger (more like 100+ columns/rows, and the percentage column is in columns L and M in most sheets, but not all) than what I shared here, and we receive this set of data from another team, so we are trying to develop a way to be able to keep the original tabs we received as is. 

       

      So, that being said, would there be a formula that we can use to come up with a summary tab?

      Thank you!

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