Monthly prices increases in crosstab

Hello all,
I am currently developing a DESKI report that will tell me in which month a supplier has put through a price increase and what the value of the price increase is (%), by product reference (SKU).
The data provider pulls in the following fields from the universe:
- suppliername
- SKU
- SKU description
- Period (format is yyyymm)
- purchase price
I have also put prompt conditions on suppliername  and on Period to run the report on specific suppliers and timeframes.
I have been trying to do this in a crosstab, with the Period running across the top. 
For the price increase I need a formula that calculates this:
(Price (current month) / Price (previous month)) -1
This doesn't work in a crosstab however, because I can't create a formula that 'looks up'  the price of the previous month 
Any ideas?

Alain,
I think the formula should look like
=(<price> - Previous(<price>)) / Previous(<price>)
Cheers,
Harry

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