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Qlikview for Finance

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Qlikview for Finance

Overview of this book

This book is an effective step-by-step tutoring guide for financial analysis using Qlikview. It begins by teaching you the crucial concepts of Qlikview Finance to help you develop an effective understanding of financial data analysis and finance. The book then goes on to cover real-world, practical examples on the use of Qlikview for financial planning and analysis, expense management, risk management, and more. Moving on, topics such as Asset Management QlikView Dashboard and Retail Sales Analysis are covered in a strategic way. We then shift the focus to deal with the concepts of Inventory, Supply Chain, and Plant Coverage Dashboards. The book then reaches its conclusion by dealing with ways to share your QlikView insights. By the end of this book, you will have a good understanding of how to use Qlikview for numerous applications in finance.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
QlikView for Finance
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Trend and forecast lines in charts


We will start by adding a trend line to the lower chart, Monthly Sales and Margin. Then, we will add a forecasted trend line out 3 months to the upper chart, with a 12-month rolling average.

Adding a trend line to the monthly sales and margin chart

  1. Right-click on the chart titled Monthly Sales and Margin and choose Properties:

  2. Navigate to the Dimensions tab.

  3. Click on the Add button to add a new dimension.

  4. On the right-hand side in the Label box, type the word Trend.

  5. Next, click on the ellipses to enter the formula for our trend line:

    if(v12month<=month(today()),sum({<YYYYMM ={">$(v12month)"}>}[Sales Amount]),avg(total aggr(if(v12month<=month(today()),sum([Sales Amount])),v12month)))

    Our formula says that, if the variable in v12month is less than the current month, then use the sum of the data we have in Sales Amount. If we don't have the current month's data, then get an average of the aggregate of the last 12 months of data:

  6. Make sure that the checkbox...