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    Question Looking for something simpler than SUMIFS - SUMIFS

    Hey everyone, I'm new here.

    I'm building a very complicated expense tracking sheet, where the sheet of transactions has the following fields:
    Date, Type (Income/Expense), Form (Cash/Bank), Category (salary, food, expense reimbursement, credit card, etc...), and amount.

    Another sheet, I have built a table to summarize it for me as follows:

    Columns are Month/Year, and rows are Income, Expense, and Net

    For income, I want the formula to first pick items which are Income, and then I need it to include all types of income except things like expense reimbursements and transactions that are just moving cash from one pocket to the other (e.g. cash to bank). On top of that, I want it to check for the month and year, but not the day.

    What I ended up with was an insane and convoluted formula:

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    Basically, this thing just adds up all the income items, and subtracts from them the items I don't want. Is there a simpler way to do this?!

    I know there are ways to combine SUMIF and SUMPRODUCT, but I just can't wrap my head around it. Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks!

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    Re: Looking for something simpler than SUMIFS - SUMIFS

    can you summarise using a pivot table at all

    perhaps a sample spreadsheet attached may help
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    Re: Looking for something simpler than SUMIFS - SUMIFS

    Quote Originally Posted by etaf View Post
    can you summarise using a pivot table at all

    perhaps a sample spreadsheet attached may help
    Pivot table works fine, but I just don't like the way it looks and the fact that it doesn't auto refresh until you reopen the file.

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    Re: Looking for something simpler than SUMIFS - SUMIFS

    Still long...

    =SUMIFS('Income & Expenses'!M:M,'Income & Expenses'!E:E,"I",'Income & Expenses'!C:C,MONTH(B4),'Income & Expenses'!D:D,YEAR(B4))-SUM(SUMIFS('Income & Expenses'!M:M,'Income & Expenses'!I:I,{"Local Reimbursement","Offshore Reimbursement","Interaccount In"},'Income & Expenses'!D:D,YEAR(B4),'Income & Expenses'!C:C,MONTH(B4)))
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    Re: Looking for something simpler than SUMIFS - SUMIFS

    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Valko View Post
    Still long...

    =SUMIFS('Income & Expenses'!M:M,'Income & Expenses'!E:E,"I",'Income & Expenses'!C:C,MONTH(B4),'Income & Expenses'!D:D,YEAR(B4))-SUM(SUMIFS('Income & Expenses'!M:M,'Income & Expenses'!I:I,{"Local Reimbursement","Offshore Reimbursement","Interaccount In"},'Income & Expenses'!D:D,YEAR(B4),'Income & Expenses'!C:C,MONTH(B4)))
    Oh, nice. That {} thing acts as OR, I guess? Thanks much simpler now.

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    Re: Looking for something simpler than SUMIFS - SUMIFS

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    You can easy refresh your pivot table.

    Excel 2007 => data => refresh pivot table.
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    Re: Looking for something simpler than SUMIFS - SUMIFS

    Quote Originally Posted by YAbdelaal View Post
    Oh, nice. That {} thing acts as OR, I guess?
    Yes!

    Thanks much simpler now.
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    Re: Looking for something simpler than SUMIFS - SUMIFS

    Thanks, everyone!

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