Need help with a IF function, please

[pgreen822]

Hi there... just found this site and it has been very helpful. I am hoping someone can help me out. I am trying to create a monthly profitability statement. In one tab of my workbook would be a list of expenses (Expense Input tab) with the following column headers:

Column A - Date
Column B - Classification (type of expense i.e. Advertising, Cost of Goods Sold, etc)
Column C- Dollar Amount
Column D - Vendor

On my profitability statement, each column is a different month. I am trying to write a formula where it will basically say "if it is an Advertising expense and it falls between 1/1/13 and 1/31/13, show the dollar amount." I put in two entries for Advertising in different months and started out by using this formula:

=SUMIFS('Expense Input'!$C$3:$C$1000,'Expense Input'!$B$3:$B$1000,"Advertising")

This obviously brought back both dollar amounts. I then tried to add in a second date range condition and NOTHING I tried worked. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong? Thanks again!

[FDibbins]

its almost impossible to say what the problem is without seeing a sample workbook. the formula above looks ok, but to add a date range, it should look something like this, assuming 1/1/13 is in B1 and 1/31/13 is in C1...

=SUMIFS('Expense Input'!$C$3:$C$1000,'Expense Input'!$B$3:$B$1000,"Advertising",the-date-you-are-testing,">=&B1,the-date-you-are-testing,"<"&C1)

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[pgreen822]

Thanks for your quick response! I attached the file.

[FDibbins]

try this, copied across...
=SUMIFS('Expense Input'!$C$3:$C$1000,'Expense Input'!$B$3:$B$1000,"Advertising",'Expense Input'!$A$3:$A$1000,">="&B$4,'Expense Input'!$A$3:$A$1000,"<"&C$4)

[bebo021999]

Try this in B19, then copy down

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[pgreen822]

You guys are awesome! Thank you so much!

[FDibbins]

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