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Default Excel - Calculating quantities in a hierarchy

Hello,
I have a rather complex question but limited experience with excel. I have a
family tree type of file and need to calculate costs based on the lower level
costs.
Example:
Level 1 AAAA sum of levels 2 ($17)
Level 2 BBBB $5
Level 2 CCCC sum of levels 3 ($12)
Level 3 DDD sum of level 4 ($5)
Level 4 EEE $5
Level 3 FFF $7

Each record has the level code and an indicator to tell if it's a sum or if
it has the cost. I'm able to do this manually but the files can become large
and this takes a while to process, level by level. Hopefully this make sense
and there's an easy way to do this.