thank you, it worked

"Toppers" wrote:

>
> with year in C1 i.e. 2005:
>
> =SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH(A1:A5)>3),--(YEAR(A1:A5)=C1),(B1:B5))+SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH(A1:A5)=3),--(YEAR(A1:A5)=C1+1),(B1:B5))
>
> HTH
>
> "Bumblebee" wrote:
>
> > I have a quarterly time series and I always want to sum the last three
> > quartes of a year and the first of the next year and I can't think of a
> > simple way to do it.
> > e.g.
> > A B
> > 31/3/2005 1000
> > 30/6/2005 3500
> > 30/9/2005 6790
> > 31/12/2005 8000
> > 31/3/2006 9000
> >
> > So I would want to add quarters 6, 9 and 12 of 2005 and 3 of 2006 in this
> > case but in general quarters 6, 9, 12 of year xxxx and 3 of year xxxx+1