Excel:Next year period - excel

Question

How to get next year period based on current month and year, for example:
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Feb 2014 - Jan 2015
Mar 2014 - Feb 2015
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
May 2014 - Apr 2015
Jun 2014 - May 2015
Jul 2014 - Jun 2015
Aug 2014 - Jul 2015
Sep 2014 - Aug 2015
Oct 2014 - Sep 2015
Nov 2014 - Oct 2015
Dec 2014 - Nov 2015
Next period
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Feb 2015 - Jan 2016
etc.
I have tried with the following formula:
=UPPER(TEXT(NOW();"MMM")) &" "& TEXT(NOW();"YY")-1
It works fine for Jan 2014 but can't figure out how to get Dec 2014; Feb 2014 - Jan 2015 and so on?

Answer 1

I think you need the EOMonth formula.
=EOMONTH(NOW(),-13) +1 and =EOMONTH(NOW(),-2) +1 should give give you JAN 2014 to DEC 2014
from the MS Excel documentation
Microsoft Excel stores dates as sequential serial numbers so they can
be used in calculations. By default, January 1, 1900 is serial number
1, and January 1, 2008 is serial number 39448 because it is 39,448
days after January 1, 1900.
To get the text formatting you are after, I would suggest that you stick with formatting the cell/column as #Makyen has suggested. Having said that this is the formula that you can use to format the text.
=UPPER(TEXT(EOMONTH(NOW(),-13) +1, "MMM YY"))

Answer 2

Assuming that the date (as a date serial number) for which you desire to find the year period is in cell A1, the following should provide the next year period starting from that day:
=EOMONTH(A1,11) +DAY(A1) -1
Examples:
Input Output
1/18/2014 1/17/2015
2/18/2014 2/17/2015
3/18/2014 3/17/2015
4/18/2014 4/17/2015
5/18/2014 5/17/2015
6/18/2014 6/17/2015
7/18/2014 7/17/2015
8/18/2014 8/17/2015
9/18/2014 9/17/2015
10/18/2014 10/17/2015
11/18/2014 11/17/2015
12/18/2014 12/17/2015
1/18/2015 1/17/2016
2/18/2015 2/17/2016
3/18/2015 3/17/2016
4/18/2015 4/17/2016
5/18/2015 5/17/2016
6/18/2015 6/17/2016
7/18/2015 7/17/2016
8/18/2015 8/17/2016
9/18/2015 9/17/2016
10/18/2015 10/17/2016
11/18/2015 11/17/2016
12/18/2015 12/17/2016
1/18/2016 1/17/2017
If you want the year period to start from the current day:
=EOMONTH(NOW(),11) + DAY(NOW()) -1
If you want the year period to start from the first day of the current month:
=EOMONTH(EOMONTH(NOW(),-1) + 1,11)
or
=EOMONTH(NOW() - DAY(NOW()) + 1,11)
The EOMONTH() function:
EOMONTH(start_date,months)
Returns the serial number for the last day of the month that is the
indicated number of months before or after start_date. Use EOMONTH to
calculate maturity dates or due dates that fall on the last day of the
month.
If this function is not available, and returns the #NAME? error,
install and load the Analysis ToolPak add-in.