Building a revenue growth rate

How fast a company is growing or shrinking is a critical factor in any business analysis. The revenue growth rate is a direct way of measuring growth based on the revenue generated by the sale of goods and services. The revenue growth rate compares the revenue generated by business between two equal-length periods, such as this year and the previous year, this quarter and the previous quarter, or this month and the previous month.

This recipe demonstrates how to create a revenue growth rate metric and display this metric in a visualization.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, do the following:

1. Open Power BI Desktop.
2. Use an Enter Data query to create a table called R02_Table that contains...