Profit and Loss (Flexible Period) Data Model

Modified on Wed, 29 Jul at 4:59 AM

Model Summary

The QQube Profit and Loss Flexible Period Data Model provides a traditional Profit and Loss structure aggregated by account and day. It supports dynamic reporting across any number of years in Power BI and Excel Power Pivot.

Model TypeFlexible-period Profit and Loss
Date CoverageAny number of years configured in the QQube Configuration Tool
AggregationAccount and day
Primary ValuesActual, Budget, Forecast, and Foreign
QuickBooks AvailabilityQuickBooks Enterprise
Primary UseBuild dynamic Profit and Loss reports without fixed monthly columns

Best Used For

  • Building traditional Profit and Loss statements with dynamic reporting periods.
  • Analyzing daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly results.
  • Comparing actual, budget, and forecast values.
  • Reviewing foreign-currency results.
  • Calculating EBITDA and percentage-of-sales comparisons.
  • Reporting across more than three years.

Key Capabilities

  • Aggregates Profit and Loss activity by account and day.
  • Supports any number of configured years.
  • Includes Actual, Budget, Forecast, and Foreign base measures.
  • Supports dynamic calendar reporting in Power BI and Excel Power Pivot.
  • Provides current, previous-period, previous-year, and comparison measures.
  • Replaces the earlier Profit and Loss Freestyle model.
  • Loads more efficiently than the earlier Freestyle model.

Flexible Period Logic

This model does not use fixed monthly columns.

Values are aggregated by day so Power BI and Excel Power Pivot can group them into daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, or other dynamic reporting periods.

QuickBooks and Application Availability

This model is available only for QuickBooks Enterprise users.

It is specifically designed for Power BI and Excel Power Pivot. It is not available through the regular QQube Excel Add-In worksheet model.

Primary Model Fields

The flexible-period model contains four base measures.

Base Measures (4)

ActualPlanningCurrency
  • .Actual
  • .Budget
  • .Forecast
  • .Foreign

Power BI and Excel Power Pivot Measures

The prepared Profit and Loss Flexible Period examples include 228 visible DAX measures in eight display folders, plus one Power BI company-filter measure without a display folder. Hidden measures are not included.

Measure FolderVisible Measures
Measures Without a Display Folder1
Antecedent Measures36
Calendar Pattern Measures21
Comparison Measures44
Current Measures54
Previous Year Measures54
Today Measures6
Tomorrow Measures6
Yesterday Measures6

Power BI company filtering

The measure without a display folder filters the Account slicer by the selected company in Power BI. Excel Power Pivot handles company filtering automatically.

Included Dimensions

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Technical Details

Model StructureOne prepared Profit and Loss table with related Account and Company dimensions
Financial Model TypeFlexible-period financial model
AggregationAccount and day
Date RangeAny number of configured years
QuickBooks EditionQuickBooks Enterprise
Application AvailabilityPower BI and Excel Power Pivot
Regular Excel AvailabilityNot available through the QQube Excel Add-In worksheet model
Base Measures4
DAX Support228 visible measures

Expected Result

Customers can immediately build dynamic Profit and Loss reports using Actual, Budget, Forecast, and Foreign values across any configured number of years.

The prepared table, Account and Company dimensions, relationships, four base measures, and visible DAX measures are already included.

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