Excel SUMIFS comparing to date defined in named value

Question

My situation is thus:

I have two tables. One is a list of invoices, each of which is assigned a project code. The other is a list of projects assigned a matching code. I'm trying to sum the total of all invoices before a specific date. The date itself is defined as a Named Value. So...

Named value: Q1_CUTOFF = DATE(2014,4,1)

Formula on the Project table is:

=SUMIFS(Invoices[Cost],B3,Invoices[Code],Invoices[Date],"<=" & Q1_CUTOFF)

...where B3 is the project code. However, this is throwing a #VALUE! error. Is there something I'm missing?

Answer 1

try to correct your formula as follows:

=SUMIFS(Invoices[Cost],Invoices[Code],B3,Invoices[Date],"<=" & Q1_CUTOFF)