OBIEE - Reporting using different time measures - year - month

I have a request where the user wants to enter in an account period (YYYYMM - example: 200911). The report should display the YTD amount up to the end of that month, the same YTD amount for last year, and then show the amount for that month and the amount for the same month last year. So basically it would be:
YTD Amount (Year: 2009 Months: Between 1 and 11)
YTD Amount Last Year (Year :2008 Months: Between 1 and 11)
Month Amount (Year: 2009 Month: 11)
Month Amount Last Year (Year: 2008 Month:11)
I can get these to work independently. Like I can get the YTDs to work by themselves and the Months to work by themselves. I just can't get them both on the same report. I have tried setting these as level based measures, but when I do, the YTD Amounts are displaying the amount for the entire year (pulling in December data).
Any advice on how to achieve this?
Thanks.

Hi Raghu
Could you pls. let me know , the syntax how to use this.
User would select Year and Month from the Prompt and measures should be rolloup for the last year YTD. e.g the fiscal calendar is Apr - Mar . so if user selects 2012 - Jan , then last yr YTD should be caluclated from 2010-Apr to 2011 Jan.
Regds

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