How can I sum values in an Excel column based upon a given month?

Question

I have two columns of Excel data. Column A lists dates (like November 15, 2013) and Column B lists dollar amounts (like $125.23). I'd like to sum all of the values in Column B for the month of November 2013.

Here is what I tried:

=SUMIFS($B$1:$B$32,$A$1:$A32,">=" & "11/1/13", $A$1:$A$32,"<=" & "11/30/13")

The problem with this is that I have to manually type in the month dates. I'd like to say something like this instead:

=SUMIFS($B$1:$B$32,$A$1:$A32,"=" & "MONTH="11"", $A$1:$A$32,"=" & "YEAR="2013"")

But this doesn't work. How can I fix this?

Please Note: I'm also trying NOT to include any additional columns in my spreadsheet.

Answer 1

You mean like this?

=SUMPRODUCT((MONTH($A$1:$A$32)=11)*(YEAR($A$1:$A$32)=2013)*($B$1:$B$32))