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    Exclamation Self-updating sales goal report???

    First off, I am the store manager of a retail location. I have taken on a project to help ease some business projection calculations.
    Here's the set up:

    I want to figure out how much money a store would need to make every month in order to hit a specific goal. For example, let's say I would like my store to make $800,000 this year. I have each month's sales results from last year, which add up to $658,778 total for the year. So, obviously, for this I would take (800,000/658,778)*(last year's month's sales) and do that for every month to find the proportioned sales needed every month this year in order to hit that $800,000 goal.

    This is where it gets tricky. NOW, I want each of those new monthly goals to automatically update in accordance with actual sales results throughout the year. For example, let's say my new sales goal for March is $30,000. Hypothetically, I make $20,000. That means that I now have to make up $10,000 in addition to the new monthly sales goals for the rest of the year in order to hit $800,000. I want to proportionally spread out that extra $10,000 between the remaining months automatically based on sales share for the rest of the year.

    I have a cell designated for "Goal Year to Date (YTD)." Our fiscal year is February-January, so the January "Goal YTD" should ALWAYS equal $800,000.

    If anyone knows how to do this and would like to share, that would be AWESOME!

    TEST 910 Metric and Sales Goals by Month.xlsx

    -Alex
    Last edited by agrave00; 09-23-2012 at 08:35 PM.

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    Re: Self-updating sales goal report???

    Figured it out. Never mind

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    Re: Self-updating sales goal report???

    @ agrave00

    Welcome to the forum.

    Based on your last post it seems that you solved your issue on your own but you haven't marked your thread as SOLVED. I'll do that for you now but please keep in mind for your future threads that Rule #9 requires you to do that yourself. If your problem has not been solved you can use Thread Tools (located above your first post) and choose "Mark this thread as unsolved".
    Thanks.

    You should actually post your solution as it may help someone else having the same problem and finding this thread as the result of a search.

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