Is this report feasible either in Bex or web reporting?

I've following records in cube.
Material Date Qty
Mat1 04/30/08 400
Mat1 05/04/08 500
Mat1 05/05/08 650
Mat1 05/06/08 720
I'm looking for a report as follows. Is it possible?
rows----
Qty in columns restricted with date
Material----
          05/04/08 05/05/08 05/06/08
Mat1----
                100       250         320
above derivation is based on - "qty" in columns restricted with date but also "qty" up-to-date needs to be substracted from ( prior-month-end which in our case is 4/30/2008 qty).
Material------- 05/04/08 05/05/08 05/06/08
Mat1----
500-400 650-400    720-400
so, for example, 05/05/08 Qty (650) column needs to be substracted from 4/30/08 Qty (400) for the output of 05/05/08 column which is 650 - 400 = 250
I've created user exit variable on date to determine prior-month end date so, i'm getting 4/30/08 in our case into this date user exit variable.
but, my problem is, as long as i put date in columns which is restricted with user-input range as 5/4/08 to 5/6/08, I'm unable to get qty of 4/30/08 into the columns for substraction purpose.
Is there a workaround to get this? I'm trying either in BeX query or Web reporting (we don't want to use excel macros to achieve this)
Appreciate any help.
Hari Immadi
http://immadi.com
SEM BW Analyst

dear Bhuvana,
please take a look this 'how to hide column' doc,
using table interface (abap class se24)
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f0aca990-0201-0010-0380-f3aac4127a57
and search with 'more than 60 char' with 'sdn forum' may lead to some thread discuss this
Concatinating text char
60 Character Limitation - Dirk Herzog please help
Bypassing 60 char limit in an InfoObject
How to show character length > 60 ,If we split and distribute..??
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