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Excel not adding correctly
I have a simple spreadsheet in Excel that I use for mileage. My column that I am adding is not adding correctly, I have reentered my formulus, I have used my sum for the end column and it still continues to be 2 cents off. I have ran all the issues, and combatibility. If I manually just enter the figure I get the correct number end result, but not if it is using the formula in each cells total. I reentered the formula and it isnt that. can anyone help me. Formula is =SUM(G11*0.535) but when I add all cells it is 2 cents off. any ideas?
6 Replies
- SergeiBaklanDiamond Contributor
It looks like typical "few cents gap" accountants issue. What they do to avoid it that's round all intermediate calculations. And that's what we have in real life - we don't pay $10.25612 as calculation shows, we pay $10.26. After we sum all transactions as the latest we have correct figure for how much we spent totally.
- Laurie ChaplinCopper Contributorby pages I mean workbook tabs of same but named different
- Laurie ChaplinCopper ContributorThat's what I thought but its not doing it on all my pages. and what do you mean number format? I have tried accounting, currency and number .
- Detlef_LewinSilver Contributor
Please provide a sample workbook with the problem.
- Laurie ChaplinCopper Contributor
Date To Odometer Odometer Purpose Property Name Miles Amount 8-Jul GWMM - TNC-HSL 124184 124125 Rent / Contracts TNC 59.00 $31.57 20-Jul GWMM - TNC-HSL 124356 124297 Rent / Patrol TNC 59.00 $31.57 25-Jul GWMM - TNC-HSL 124497 124438 Contracts / Patrol TNC 59.00 $31.57 31-Jul GWMM - TNC-HSL 124777 124696 Rent TNC 81.00 $43.34 Total 258.00 $138.03
- Detlef_LewinSilver Contributor
Laurie,
it sounds like a rounding or formatting issue.
What number format are you using?
And the SUM() function in your formula is totally superfluous.