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Nick
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Lynda Zhang
> I would like to roll up the past 4 quarters of sales for each company:
>
> Company Year Quarters Sales 4_Mo_Sales
> ABC 1990 1 10
> ABC 1990 2 10
> ABC 1990 3 15
> ABC 1990 4 10 45
> ABC 1991 1 20 55
> BBC 1989 1 20
> BBC 1989 2 10
> BBC 1989 3 20
> BBC 1989 4 10 60
> BBC 1990 1 15 55
> BBC 1990 3 10 35
>
> The resulting calculation I am looking to get is in 4_Mo_Sales.
>
> Note the following:
>
> 1) The first 3 quarters don't have 4 full quarters, so I don't
> calculate the 4_Mo_Sales for that 3 quarters
>
> 2) For BBC, quarter 2 in 1990 is missing, so I only sum up 3 quarters
> and got 35 in the past 4 quarters
>
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