>Hi everybody,
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>I have a field Commission paid in the table. For my report I also re-calculate commissions based on category. I use currency fields for commissions and I round the numbers by 2. Now the total commissions paid (which is near 10K) doesn't match the sum of totals commissions by category by $5.
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>I'm wondering, should I try to not round my commissions in the calculations? The total commission paid field is Numeric (11,2).
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>What do you think about this problem?
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>Thanks in advance.
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>UPDATE. Without the round the difference is only in the last digits (cents portion), so I lost $5 somehow in my calculations...
I think you should look at all intermediate results. Probably you must round all intermediate results to 2 decimals as well, to get exactly the same results in both cases.
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