Calculating Percent Variance with Negative Values in Excel - Office 365

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There is no good way to calculate the percent variance when either the old value or the new value is negative. You can use an absolute value for the denominator so that percent variance is calculated correctly but depending on the data the results might be misleading. Another way to solve this is to display a constant text if either old or new value is negative.
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Thank you for the video, it was helpful 😊

sapnapanjabi
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I think I found a solution: multiply the negative number by 2, then makes it an absolute..

Then you add the positive one with that "multiply the negative number by 2, then makes it an absolute."

Now you can calculate the percentage change with all the number in positive. And they probably have the same proportion.

Disclaimer: I'm not yet to test this solution, I got an assignment that I need to finish first.

lastyhopper
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The video was helpful but I didn't know that Kamal Haasan now run a YouTube channel on excel topic

syedraiyan
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How to calculate it if the 2008 is equal to zero?

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