Compute year on year growth in a Pivot Table

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Assume a three column dataset which has Year, Company ID and Cash flows.  For each Company, there are cash flows for multiple years.  So for Company ID A001, there are 7 rows, one each for 2010 to 2004 and cash flows appearing in a third column.  Let’s assume the number of rows are 750,000.

The task is to compute the year on year growth rate in a fourth column.  While this problem can easily be solved by writing a formula in a fourth column, copying that formula all the way down to 750,000 rows will be time consuming and processor intensive.

I have been able to solve this problem using PowerPivot.  You may download the workbook from here.

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