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Laurie Chaplin's avatar
Laurie Chaplin
Copper Contributor
Aug 04, 2017

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?

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  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    SergeiBaklan
    Diamond 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 Chaplin's avatar
    Laurie Chaplin
    Copper Contributor
    That'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_Lewin's avatar
      Detlef_Lewin
      Silver Contributor

      Please provide a sample workbook with the problem.

       

      • Laurie Chaplin's avatar
        Laurie Chaplin
        Copper Contributor
        DateToOdometerOdometerPurpose           Property NameMilesAmount
        8-JulGWMM - TNC-HSL124184124125Rent / ContractsTNC59.00$31.57
        20-JulGWMM - TNC-HSL124356124297Rent / PatrolTNC59.00$31.57
        25-JulGWMM - TNC-HSL124497124438Contracts / PatrolTNC59.00$31.57
        31-JulGWMM - TNC-HSL124777124696RentTNC81.00$43.34
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
            Total 258.00$138.03
  • Detlef_Lewin's avatar
    Detlef_Lewin
    Silver 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.

     

     

     

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