Calculating growth between numbers in same field

[Brett_Snelgrove]

Hi there,

So I have a Table were I am tracking Costs in one field and in another field I have Financial Years.

Financial Year
19/20
Costs
$100

Financial Year
20/21
Costs
$200

What I would like to be able to do create another field where I calculate the growth from 19/20 to 20/21:

Cost Growth
100%

I’m really not sure how to go about this. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

[nnnnneil]

Hey @Brett_Snelgrove,
This might help: Formula for percentage increase - #4 by Alex_Wolfe
Cheers,
Neil

[Justin_Barrett]

Comparing values between records is tricky because you’re dealing with a database, not a spreadsheet, so the records have no intrinsic relationship. This can be done with some clever setup, though, which @W_Vann_Hall outlines here:

Multi-record calculations (c.f. 'running balance,' 'row number,' and the like) Show and tell

tl;dr version: A frequent query and/or complaint concerns users who wish to access data from a record for use in a calculation performed in a different record from the same table. Often this takes the form of a user asking ‘how to retrieve a value based on row number’; other times the user wishes to perform a calculation that assumes knowledge of the previous record — for instance, maintaining a running balance. A recently published base contains four approaches to this problem, three involving …

[Brett_Snelgrove]

Thanks for the recommendation Neil :slightly_smiling_face:

[Brett_Snelgrove]

Thanks Justin. That’s a three cup of tea read there. I’ll check it out.

:thumbs_up: :tea: