Pivot Tip 26 - How to analyse sales by financial year. By David Carter

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When you use the Group function to summarise dates, Excel groups by calendar year. But organisations need to report by financial year, and that will usually be different.

To report by financial year you will need to hold the financial year and period number in your source database.

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