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Challenge #461: Accounting Payment Calendar

AYXAcademy
Alteryx
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Hello Community members!

 

A solution to last week’s challenge can be found here

 

This week’s challenge was submitted by Jay Zhen @jialiangzhen . Thank you, Jay, for this great challenge!

Imagine you work for a large organization’s accounting department. You are responsible for organizing the payment schedule for the year based on specific dates.

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The entire company’s payments must be completed by the 6th workday of each month. You want to use Designer to organize a schedule for the entire year. The provided dataset contains the 2024 calendar and company holidays. Your task is to determine when the 6th workday is for each month in 2024. A workday is defined as any weekday from Monday to Friday (excluding company 

holidays).

 

Note: If you get stuck, check out the Hints box included in the workflow.

 

Need a refresher? Review the following lessons in Academy to gear up:

Joining Data

Numeric Functions

 

Good luck!

The Academy Team

 

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Download Solution File

BransonJamesFarley
Asteroide
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 Could be optimized 😂

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BransonJamesFarley
Asteroide

Also appears to possibly be some slight errors with the given solution? For example the tenth month is a repeated "1". Fun challenge though!

RolandSchubert
16 - Nebula
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Bobbyt23
Pulsar

Good challenge. Could definitely have used less tools!

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griffinwelsh
Quasar

My solution

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Tofel
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alexgibson
Meteoro

Fun challenge this week!

 

 
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binu_acs
Polaris
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