simple formula?

golfgirl46

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I'm sure this is easy, but I'm stuck.

I have an original value and a current value. I want to calculate the percentage increase or decrease from the original and if the value has dropped, I want that to be a negative number.

Example:
Original value $420000 (A1)
Current value $192000 (A2)
Current fomula =(A1-B1)/ABS(A1) which gives me 54% but I would like that number to be negative.

I have about 200 cells to apply this formula to so I was hoping for a formula that would work wether the number was an increase or a decrease.

Thanks!
 

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