Finding Top 5 Expense Items with Comments
 

I have a list of expenses in one tab of my workbook from an employee's
expense reports. I am trying to find the top 5 expenses for that person to
be summarized on a summary tab. I have used the LARGE function to find the
top 5 dollar amounts, but don't know how to pull the expense category, date
and description into the summary. The detail could be in any order.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Ron

Finding Top 5 Expense Items with Comments
 

Hopefully there are no "ties"

Use VLOOKUP:

say the expenses are in column A with catagory, date, and description in
B,C,D.

=VLOOKUP(LARGE(A:A,1),A1:D100,2,FALSE) for col B
=VLOOKUP(LARGE(A:A,1),A1:D100,3,FALSE) for col C
=VLOOKUP(LARGE(A:A,1),A1:D100,4,FALSE) for col D


then for the next largest:
=VLOOKUP(LARGE(A:A,2),A1:D100,2,FALSE) for col B
etc.
--
Gary''s Student - gsnu200814


"ruffnro" wrote:

I have a list of expenses in one tab of my workbook from an employee's
expense reports. I am trying to find the top 5 expenses for that person to
be summarized on a summary tab. I have used the LARGE function to find the
top 5 dollar amounts, but don't know how to pull the expense category, date
and description into the summary. The detail could be in any order.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Ron

Finding Top 5 Expense Items with Comments
 

That is a great suggestion, the problem is that I can and do have ties. Then
this brings back the comments on the first expense item for all of the ties.

Are there any other thoughts on how to do this.

Thanks for your help "Gary"s Student"!!

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

Hopefully there are no "ties"

Use VLOOKUP:

say the expenses are in column A with catagory, date, and description in
B,C,D.

=VLOOKUP(LARGE(A:A,1),A1:D100,2,FALSE) for col B
=VLOOKUP(LARGE(A:A,1),A1:D100,3,FALSE) for col C
=VLOOKUP(LARGE(A:A,1),A1:D100,4,FALSE) for col D


then for the next largest:
=VLOOKUP(LARGE(A:A,2),A1:D100,2,FALSE) for col B
etc.
--
Gary''s Student - gsnu200814


"ruffnro" wrote:

I have a list of expenses in one tab of my workbook from an employee's
expense reports. I am trying to find the top 5 expenses for that person to
be summarized on a summary tab. I have used the LARGE function to find the
top 5 dollar amounts, but don't know how to pull the expense category, date
and description into the summary. The detail could be in any order.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Ron