# Build a P\&L / Income statement in less than 5 minutes

In this video learn how Inforiver helps you build your P\&L / Income statement in less than 5 minutes without using DAX. 

Anyone who has attempted to build a P\&L / income / financial reporting statement in Power BI using the native table or matrix visual knows how time-consuming the task can be. The complication comes from several reasons, including but not limited to 

(a) having to encode a custom sort order for accounts in the data model 

(b) using DAX to not only perform calculations but also to conditionally populate rows based on GL accounts/subtotals 

(c) formatting limitations 

(d) limitations in handling accounting signs (+/-), and more.

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