Line Chart to Compare Current Year vs Last Year

I am on BI 7 SP9. I need to create a line chart that shows 2 lines to compare revenue for the current year against last year. The first line should show the revenue for the current year. The second line should show the revenue for last year. In my BEx query, I have the fiscal period values in the row and the revenue key figure in the column. Questions:
1. How can I show 2 lines in the chart to compare revenue for the current year vs last year?
2. There are 2 variables for the fiscal period - one for current year and one for last year. The user can enter any value range in the fiscal period variables at query runtime, but the fiscal periods for each of the 2 years must be the same. This means the number of fiscal periods that appear in the query result rows will vary (e.g.. 3 periods for a quarter or 12 periods for a full year). The user has to enter the same fiscal periods for the current year and last year variables. How can I determine the fiscal period values to plot in the line chart for the current year and then last year when the number of rows in the query results will fluctuate?
The legend at the bottom of the chart should show JAN, FEB, MAR...DEC instead of the fiscal period values like 001/2007, 002/2007. Is there an exit I have to change to get this to work?
Thanks for any help you can give!

You can do it in multiple ways
1.
SELECT COALESCE(t1.Company,t2.Company) AS Company,
COALESCE(t1.Sales2015,0) AS CurrentYearSales,
COALESCE(t2.Sales2014,0) AS PriorYearSales
FROM Sales2015 t1
FULL JOIN Sales2014 t2
On t2.Company = t1.Company
2.
SELECT Company,
MAX(CASE WHEN YearVal = 2015 THEN Sales ELSE 0 END) AS CurrentYearSales,
MAX(CASE WHEN YearVal = 2014 THEN Sales ELSE 0 END) AS PriorYearSales
FROM
SELECT Company,Sales2015 AS Sales,2015 AS YearVal
FROM Sales2015
UNION ALL
SELECT Company,Sales2014 AS Sales,2014
FROM Sales2014
)t
GROUP BY Company
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2012 1 40,40
2012 2 30,40
2012 3 56,40
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2012 1 40,40 14,40
2012 2 30,40 23,40
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2012 4 60,40 44,40
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