Display sales as a KPI
In our previously loaded sample data from Chapter 1, Getting That Financial Data into QlikView, sales is a grouping in the AcctGroup column and is a credit. It comes directly from the source system as a negative so that, when everything is summed up, we get a trial balance. That is why we could see the out of balances in our first tab. Sales will have to be multiplied by minus one (-1) in order for it to appear as a positive number. Also, we would like to have a target number to compare with Sales.
Note
There are two additional sample data Excel spreadsheets available for download from your account at http://www.PacktPub.com that are used in this chapter. One is named Target.xls and the other is named IS3yr.xls.
Our target is another Excel workbook named Target.xls that is available for download, or you can create your own workbook to load. The one available for download has this data:
|
Company |
Target |
|---|---|
|
Cheyenne Manufacturing |
140000000 |
|
American Distribution |
0 |
|
Cheyenne... |
