Forecast Trend formula needed

ShanaVT

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I am building a forecasting model that will allow for multiple ways to trend actuals data forward and I am looking for a formula to help me do that automatically where I don't have to adjust the formula every month. Below is the example data. I will have 2 full years of actuals up to the current month in the first set of columns (I used 6 month years for this example to simplify). And then in the next set of columns you will see for FY19 the 2 months of actuals that have come in for Months 1 & 2 are reflected. In the row with "3 Month Avg" I want Months 3-6 to calculate the average of the last 3 months (so FY18 Month 6, FY19 Month 1 & FY19 Month 2). But I want to formula to know which 3 months to use based on the last month of Actuals we have (so in this case FY19 Month 2) so that when Actuals for Month 3 come in it will automatically change the go forward formula to be an avg of FY19 Months 1-3 for the remaining Months of the year. I also want to do the same thing for a 6 month avg. Ideally it would be in the same formula with an IF statement so I can use a drop-down and choose which method I want. Hopefully this makes sense and someone out there will be able to help! Thanks in advance!

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[TD] 371[/TD]
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[TD]3 Month Avg[/TD]
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[TD] 146[/TD]
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[TD]6 Month Avg[/TD]
[TD] 55[/TD]
[TD] 146[/TD]
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Although the 'Total' for the year end, throws the average out.


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Book1
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3ActualsActualsActualsActualsActualsActualsActualsActualsActualsActualsActualsActuals
4FY18FY18FY18FY18FY18FY18FY19FY19FY19FY19FY19FY19
5Month 1Month 2Month 3Month 4Month 5Month 6Month 1Month 2Month 3Month 4Month 5Month 6
617114617817114617855146
7
83126
96146
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
C8{=SUM(IF(COLUMN(B6:M6)>=LARGE(IF(B6:M6>0,COLUMN(B6:M6)),$B$8),B6:M6))/$B$8}
C9{=SUM(IF(COLUMN(B6:M6)>=LARGE(IF(B6:M6>0,COLUMN(B6:M6)),$B$9),B6:M6))/$B$9}
Press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to enter array formulas.
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