Using a boolean formula in condition

Hi All,
In my report I've two prices, legal price and audit price.
Legal price is a Nav. att. in cube it is an attribute of material.
My requirement is to show only those records where audit price < legal price.
First, I tried to achieve this by putting audit price in condition and creating a varriable for legal price, but it didn't do anything that condition shows all the records.
Then I've created a boolean formula called flag and put this condition in it. It shows me 0 and 1 correctly. But, when I create any condition based on this flag saying flag > 0 or flag = 1, or flag = 0; I got no record.
Can anyone pls. explain what I'm doing wrong or Bex. treat boolean formulas differently in conditions.
Regards
Tarun

Tarun,
Try this.
Create a calculated key figure = audit price - legal price.
Now create a condition on this new key figure like if value < 0 to display.
You can hide this field.
Hope it Helps
Srini

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