Excel WORKDAY equivalent in Power Query and Power BI

If you want to transform your Excel calculations over to Power Query you might appreciate functions there that have the same syntax like in Excel itself. Today I’m going to share the Power Query function for the Excel WORKDAY function. It has exactly the same function parameters than its Excel equivalent. (If you came here … Read more

Transforming multiple columns at once with reference to existing column in Power Query

In this article I’m going to present a method about transforming multiple columns at once in a fast way. This method also allows you to reference columns that exist in your table already. As I have described in a previous article, this cannot be done using the native Table.TransformColumns function that will be applied if … Read more

Excel NORM.INV function in Power Query and Power BI

The Excel NORM.INV function hasn’t made it into the standard library of M functions for Power Query yet. So here I’m sharing a custom function that replicates it. Excel NORM.INV function in Power Query The Excel NORM.INV function returns the inverse of the normal cumulative distribution for the specified mean and standard deviation. So unlike … Read more

Black Scholes Option Pricing with Power Query in Power BI

The Black Scholes formula returns the value of European put and call options. The version I’m sharing here uses the standard normal cumulative distribution function from my previous blogpost. Algorithm For the implementation of this formula in M, I’ve used the R implementation from Financetrain for the ease of use: BlackScholes <- function(S, K, r, … Read more

Excel NORM.DIST function in Power Query and Power BI

If you’re looking for Excel functions in Power BI, you will recognize that much more of them have been transformed to native DAX functions than to native M functions in Power Query. One of the basic statistical functions that hasn’t made it to M is the NORM.DIST function. Excel NORM.DIST function in Power Query The … Read more