You can also try this:

=EOMONTH(A1,-1)-30
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"Patrick C. Simonds" wrote:

I need to construct a formula which will subtract 1 month from the previous
month and return the first day of the preceding month.

Example:
A1 value is 24 April, I want A2's value to be 1 March