>date descrip amount balance
>01/01/97 Item 1 10.00 10.00
>01/02/97 Item 2 8.00 18.00
>01/03/97 Item 3 11.00 29.00
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>You said that I should stop it from recalcing in the method. Could you elaborate a little.

I meant that your method will be called for each record but it should not increment the value.

Ok, can you give the formula needed to calculate the balance?