Need help in showing future purchases over a period of time and atset intervals
My problem is lets say I know I want to buy a total of A apples in
equal bunches until I have reached A. However these purchases will be spread over time. Lets say I have months numbered from 1 to 100 in a vertical column. I want to first be able to tell the function that I want to purchase the apples in a certain number of bunches say X. Then I want to say that my first purchase of apples will be made on month Y with subsequent purchases made each Z months until I have purchased a total of A apples. so I would like an output where in column A I have months listed from 1 to 100 and in column B the number of apples purchased in that month will be displayed. I anticipate most months having an output of 0. Any ideas on how to tackle this one? |
Need help in showing future purchases over a period of time and at set intervals
Hi,
Assume that in A2:A102, you have the month numbers. In I2:I5, you have bunches, total apples to be purchased, first month of purchase and month increments. In cell B2, you may use the following formula and then copy down till B102 =IF(AND(OR(A2=$I$4,MOD(A2,$I$5)=4),SUM(B$1:B1)<$I$ 3),MIN($I$3-SUM(B$1:B1),$I$2),"") Hope this helps. -- Regards, Ashish Mathur Microsoft Excel MVP www.ashishmathur.com "hejnoid" wrote in message ... My problem is lets say I know I want to buy a total of A apples in equal bunches until I have reached A. However these purchases will be spread over time. Lets say I have months numbered from 1 to 100 in a vertical column. I want to first be able to tell the function that I want to purchase the apples in a certain number of bunches say X. Then I want to say that my first purchase of apples will be made on month Y with subsequent purchases made each Z months until I have purchased a total of A apples. so I would like an output where in column A I have months listed from 1 to 100 and in column B the number of apples purchased in that month will be displayed. I anticipate most months having an output of 0. Any ideas on how to tackle this one? |
Need help in showing future purchases over a period of time andat set intervals
Thanks for the help. You got me headed in the right direction. For
what it's worth I had to change the equation to: =IF(AND(OR(A2=$I$3, AND(MOD(A2-$I$3,$I$2)=0, A2$I$3-1)), SUM($B$1:B1)< $I$4), $I$4/$I$5,0) |
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