# YTD vs Custom Period?

**URL:** <https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/ytd-vs-custom-period/2012>\
**Category:** Ask the Community\
**Tags:** financial-statements\
**Created:** [October 21, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/ytd-vs-custom-period/2012 "2021-10-21T16:10:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![jmills](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@jmills](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/u/jmills)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/ytd-vs-custom-period/2012/1 "2021-10-21T16:10:58Z")

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Is there anyway to run a P&L for YTD vs Custom Period? The Last Period check box works great if we’re looking at the current period but if we want to run this for Last Period or the period before we’ve not been able to run those.

E.g. Today is Oct 21, the Last Period check box shows me Oct 2021 vs Oct 2020 but we want to look at Sep 2021 Vs Sep 2020, then have the YTD run through to the end of September.

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**Author:** ![anon82048367](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@anon82048367](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/u/anon82048367)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/ytd-vs-custom-period/2012/2 "2021-11-24T01:18:06Z")

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Hi

This will be possible in our new **Column Builder** functionality due out first quarter of next year. I have been considering the concept of “Last Closed Period” to allow users to ignore the current period which may not have been closed out.

Cheers  
Nick Collett

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**Author:** ![jmills](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@jmills](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/u/jmills)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 12:46pm UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/ytd-vs-custom-period/2012/3 "2021-11-24T12:46:28Z")

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Hey Nick,

I actually have this working by using having a period that runs Jan to the month I want. Then when you use the Previous and Include Last Period, you end up with Month 2021 Vs Month 2020 and Jan 2021 to Month vs Jan 2020 to Month. It’s working great!

The column builder is certainly going to help with this though as our CFO only wants to see a variance on the year not on the month, but it looks like I should be able to accomplish that in the column builder.

Cheers,

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**Author:** ![wpratt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@wpratt](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/u/wpratt)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/ytd-vs-custom-period/2012/4 "2022-07-18T17:29:31Z")

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Is Column Builder functionality live? I would like to be a statement with multiple columns…Column 1 would TTM June 2022, Column 2 would be TTM May 2022, etc. Is this something that can be created?

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**Author:** ![anon82048367](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@anon82048367](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/u/anon82048367)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 9:27pm UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/ytd-vs-custom-period/2012/5 "2022-07-24T21:27:06Z")

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Hi  
We hope to have the first version of Column Builder in the August release. Once it is live, we will continue to enhance it based on customer/user feedback.

Thanks  
Nick