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Financial Modeling and Reporting with Microsoft Power BI
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Financial Modeling and Reporting with Microsoft Power BI

by Andy Clark, Tom Gough, Shailan Chudasama
May 2026
Beginner to intermediate
350 pages
8h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Basic Model for Financial Reporting

In the previous chapter, we described how to plan your Power BI project. Adoption of Power BI is high across organizations as its popularity has become almost viral. Proper project management disciplines are required to successfully implement the product and use it to its full potential. A project scope alongside an understanding of your user base and data sources will prepare your organization for the long term when considering self-service business intelligence and AI.

In this chapter, we start to look at the data model, or semantic model in Power BI terminology. Your semantic model defines how data is composed, its relationships, and how you can present it in Power BI. The art of data modeling is ...

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