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Analyzing Data with Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel, First Edition
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Analyzing Data with Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel, First Edition

by Alberto Ferrari, Marco Russo
April 2017
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
7h 54m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 11. Working with multiple currencies

In this chapter, we will analyze some models that have in common the need to handle multiple sales in multiple currencies. As you will learn, whenever you need to handle multiple currencies, the number of problems increases by a lot. In fact, there are many decisions you will need to make to accommodate for multiple currencies in terms of the size of the model, flexibility, and performance.

We first introduce the problem of currency conversion, showing the challenges and problems you might face when developing models in different scenarios. Then, as in previous chapters, we build some examples of data models involving currency conversion. There are different ways of modeling the same scenario, and ...

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