cyberrie / Console-Finances

This is JavaScript code for analyzing the financial records of a company. It calculates the total number of months, net profit/loss, average changes and max profit/ max loss over a period of time. 🤑

Console Finances

Overview

This is JavaScript code for analyzing the financial records of a company, containing month/year and the amount.

It calculates each of the following:

• The total number of months included in the dataset.

• The net total amount of Profit/Losses over the entire period.

• The average of the changes in Profit/Losses over the entire period:

  • Calculated by finding the change in profits from month to month and then the average of that

• The greates increase in profit (date and amount) over the entire period

• The greatest decrease in losses (date and amount) over the entire period

Expected Console Output

The final code prints the analysis to browser console, as below:

Financial Analysis
Total Months: 86
Total: $38382578
Average  Change: $-2315.12
Greatest Increase in Profits: Feb-2012 ($1926159)
Greatest Decrease in Profits: Sep-2013 ($-2196167)

Screenshot of the Console Output

Links

1. Click on this link to access the Live Server: Console Finances

2. Press Command+Option+J (Mac) or Control+Shift+J (Windows, Linux, ChromeOS) to open the Console

My Process

• Pseudocode written first and is also visible in the comments sections throughout my code
• Code brokend down in smaller sections initially and then joined together
• Console.log used throughout to test the output
• Searate for loops used for average changes, max profit and max loss but refactored when completed

Built with...

• JavaScript

What I learned

• For loop iteration through nested array
• Selection of the appropriate array elements and performing neccessary operations
• separate for loops used initially for total average change, max profit and max loss but refactored when completed

Useful Resources

• JavaScript Arrays and array Methods

• Number.prototype.toFixed()

• JavaScript Loops and Iteration

Author

©️ Helena Gilja

• GitHub - cyberrie

License

N/A