22-25 April 2026
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SQLBits 2022

Building an Income Statement in Power BI end to end

Learn how to build an income statement In power BI from scoping requirements all the questions to considering different visuals
In this session Rishi will show how to build an Income Statement in Power BI end-to-end, looking at: • Capturing requirements for the report and scoping/designing a data model with scattered/inconsistent transaction data • Use of a "FS Lines" table to have metadata driven financial statements including custom calculations • Creating Dataflows to ingest data from an on-premise database/files/Web API (for exchange Rates) • Shaping the data in Power BI Desktop into a General Ledger/Trial Balance with corresponding dimensions and currency conversion • Creating base measures for Revenue/Profit and corresponding ratios including time-based variations (MTD/QTD/YTD) and Current vs Prior Year calculations • Defining DAX measures for Running Totals, Category Totals and Custom Calculations • Applying different number formats for viewing the income statement in reporting currency (USD) vs local currencies (GBP/AUD/EUR) • Applying conditional formatting for the Income Statement matrix to highlight sub-totals/custom calculation lines differently.