Hi,
I wonder if Calc can help in my case:
I'm writing a financial forecast for my company. We sell 3 kinds of
products.
But they all use the same scheme when it comes to computing fees and
incomes.
So i made one (big) table with all the computation process and the
comments
(it has to be shown to financers). The product variables are isolated
at the
top of the sheet.
Then i used scenarii on my variables (there are only 4 variables to
define a
product). It's fine: i can switch scenario and i see all the matching
forecasted results on the computation table.
But now, i want a new spreadsheet summarizing our activity: we sell
the 3 kind
of products, so i make a table with three lines, one by product. Rows
are for
years (5 in my forecast). And of course, i would like this table to be
dynamic, and change with whatever variable i change in scenarii or
formula in
the forecast table. The problem is scenarii are not the answer,
because they
are by definition volatile: when you switch scenarii, all the data,
everywhere, gets adapted. Even naming a scenario and using its name when
refering to a cell doesn't work, because cells out of the scenario's
frame are
considered empty.
So, is there a way to mix the scenario behaviour with dynamic tables
mixing
data from all scenarii?
I thought of generic formulas: i could make only one sheet with all
computation, then 3 other sheets with only the variable data of each
of the 3
products, and use the first same sheet formula in the 3 next ones to
get my
results (in place). Then a 5th sheet could easily summarize all that.
The
first sheet would not have any result, since without the data of the
3 other
sheets, it's only formulas.
I hope i was clear. Not easy to explain that, but i'm sure you see my
problem,
and maybe someone has another, magical, solution.
Of course i could copy 3 times the whole sheet (data + computation),
but that
means much more maintenance, since i'm changing often details in the
formulas
(i should do changes three times always). And what about same case
but with
10+ products?
Thank you for reaching this line of text :)
Best regards,
Ninj