Return historic date, if weekend, then business day before

[chfolke]

I have this formula:

EOMONTH($E$3;E9) returning e.g. 30-06-2011

But if the date it returns is a weekend I want it to return the friday before.

Can anyone help me with this problem?

[Ace_XL]

Try..

=IF(OR(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH($E$3,E9))=1,WEEKDAY(EOMONTH($E$3,E9))=7),WORKDAY(EOMONTH($E$3,E9),-1),WORKDAY(EOMONTH($E$3,E9),0))

or

=IF(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH($E$3,E9))=1,EOMONTH($E$3,E9)-2,IF(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH($E$3,E9))=7,EOMONTH($E$3,E9)-1,EOMONTH($E$3,E9)))

[chfolke]

Thank you very much

[jason.b75]

A bit shorter

=WORKDAY(EOMONTH($E$3,E9),-(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH($E$3,E9),2)>5))

[daddylonglegs]

...shorter still.....

=WORKDAY(EOMONTH($E$3;E9)+1;-1)

[Cutter]

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