How do I calculate a profit for each month in MS A

Question

I'm quite new to access and I am currently in the process of making a database for my company.

I have a 'Jobs' table with these fields in:

• Job No.
• Year Initiated
• Month Initiated
• Company ID
• Job Description
• Amount Quoted
• Amount to Invoice
• Invoice Number
• Completed By
• Cost
• Profit

What I want to know Is what is the best way/ how do I calculate either in a form or query the overall profit for each month?

Please help, the database is really coming along, apart from this is well entruely stuck on.

Answer 1

You want to find all rows matching a specific year / month, and add together all the profit entries for that month to get a total?

If so, try this :

select sum(profit) from Jobs where year = 2013 and month = 02

Or, if you want to retrieve this information for all months in one go, try this :

select year, month, sum(profit) from Jobs group by year, month