Finding the first and last days of a month in DAX is fairly straightforward. The starting day of a month is always 1 and DAX includes a handy EOMONTH function to return the last day of a month. Similarly, finding the first and last days of a year is extremely straightforward considering that years always begin on January 1 and end on December 31. Nevertheless, things become trickier when attempting to find the first and last day of a week and become much, much trickier when trying to identify the first working day of a week, month, or year.
However, since most businesses have the concept of a work week that includes work days and non-work days, it is often important to be able to identify the first and last working days of weeks, months, and years. Luckily, this recipe shows exactly how to accomplish finding the first...