Hi Gary,

Thanks for your response to my post on microsofts VBA forum. The problem is
a bit difficult to articulate without including an excel sheet.

The pivot table you suggested does provide the sums as you indicated. But it
does not help with identifying which giver entities and taker entities are
exchanging roles using the same channel-account-channel combination. Those
entries need to be identified, summed and subtracted. For this every entry
needs to be compared with every other entry to see if of the same
channel-account-channel combinations, any entries have giver and taker in
reversed roles.

Amit

"Gary Brown" wrote:

Instead of VBA, here's a way to do what you want.
First of all, since this stuff looks like intercompany transfer type
transactions, you really want both sides of the transaction.

Assumptions:
- Col A has a combination of 'Acct-Giver Channel-Taker Channel'
ex: AC5-CH3-CH2
- Col B has GIVER
ex: G1
- Col C has TAKER
ex: T4
- Col D has Amount
ex: 100

Somewhere below your 3,125th row, have formulas related to the above data,
such as...
- Col A = A2
- Col B = C2
- Col C = B2
- Col D = -D2

Now you've got both sides of the transaction.

- Create a Pivot Table with a range of A:D
- Row Heading Field(s):
- A-GC-TC
- GIVER
- TAKER
- Data Field(s) -
- Sum of AMT

That will give you a positive 90 for G1-CH3-AC5-CH2-T4 and a negative 90 for
T4-CH3-AC5-CH2-G1.

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Hope this helps.
If it does, please click the Yes button.
Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Gary Brown



"amitexcel" wrote:

I need to implement the following logic in excel vba. I will appreciate any
ideas.

Thanks

Problem description -

There are 5 dimensions along which a transfer of goods happens.

Giver (G), giver channel (CH), account number (AC), taker (T), taker channel
(CH)

All of these can and do assume unique values.
Examples €“ G1, G2, G3 etc, CH1, CH2, CH3 etc and so forth

There can be any combination of these along which a transfer might take place.
Example €“ A transfer might look like

From G1, through CH3, to T4, through CH2, in account number AC5
So it looks like
G1 €“ CH3 €“ AC5 €“ CH2 €“ T4 = 100 where 100 is the amount that was transferred
in this transaction

I need to determine what total amount was transferred for each such
combination above. The problem is simple enough if the combinations are all
unique. But when the giver becomes the taker and taker becomes the giver, BUT
the channels and account number remain the same, then the transfer amount
needs to be netted.

Example:
G1 €“ CH3 €“ AC5 €“ CH2 €“ T4 = 100
T4 €“ CH3 €“ AC5 €“ CH2 €“ G1 = 10
Then this should be netted as
G1 €“ CH3 €“ AC5 €“ CH2 €“ T4 = 90


So, I need to identify such unique combinations as
G - CH €“ AC €“ CH - T
And sum (net) them.

If there were 5 G, CH, AC and T each, there would be 5x5x5x5x5 = 3125
possible combinations along which a transaction could take place. I need to
identify all those that are the same, AND ALSO, all those where everything
else if the same except the giver and taker have switched places.