>>Dear Bhavbhuti Nathwani
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>>No body wrote any code in this thread. Every body try to present suggestions.
>>I ask if thread poster knows the codes then what he needs to post any thread.
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>It's easy to write the code - it's much harder to design the tables (or even temporary cursors) to have as little code as really necessary.
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>There are several things to consider in your case (and yes, I had my running totals to do in my time). First, can you trust the totals column? Is it possible that a record may come somewhere in the middle and you'd have to recalculate everything from that point on? Is it possible that a record may be deleted (and then recalculate everything again)? Also, are you sure the records will always show in this order? If there's any chance that they may show in a different order, then you'd have to recalculate for the new order.
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>If it will always be by date, and there is one and only one record per date, then it's simple:
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>lnTotal=0
>lnOpening=0
>scan
>   lnTotal=lnTotal+receipt-payment
>   replace opening with lnOpening;
>      ,   total with lnTotal
>   lnOpening=lnTotal
>endscan

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>If any record changes (add new, change existing, delete... anything), you would need to run this again.
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Dragan,

Seems to me the 'opening' is in every record already. How else does he know the balance ?