How to create a MoM KPI in Power BI

Shashanka Shekhar
Microsoft Power BI
Published in
4 min readMar 11, 2024

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What are MoM calculations?

“MoM” stands for “Month-over-Month” and is a measure of growth from one month to the next. The MoM growth rate is calculated by subtracting the value of a metric in the first month from its value in the second month, dividing that result by the value in the first month, and then multiplying by 100 to get a percentage. For example, if your business generated $10,000 in sales last month and you generated $15,000 this month, your MoM Growth would be 50%, as you have seen a 50% monthly increase in revenue between the two months.

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Building the KPI card for MoM Sales

We will be making this KPI card:

For calculating MoM Sales we require MTD Sales and PMTD Sales which further requires the need for a calendar table because there is a requirement of creating a calendar table whenever we are dealing with dates in Power BI.

1.DAX for calendar table creation:

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Shashanka Shekhar
Microsoft Power BI

Contributor for Microsoft Power BI. I like Data Analysis and Data Science. Also I enjoy sports, videogames and Japanese Anime in my free time.