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"jimtmcdaniels" wrote:
Office 1 total trans is 6074 Office 2 total trans is 7052 Office 3 total trans is 6105 Grand total for all three offices trans is 19231 Using formula that divides office 1 cell by grand total = 32% Office 2 = 37% Office 3 = 32% But 32% + 37% + 32% equals 101%! [...] the boss wants whole numbers only, and wants it to equal 100%! This is a common problem with rounding -- and by the way, it has nothing to do with computer arithmetic or Excel. You get the same error with these numbers if you do the rounding by hand. First, you might try educating your boss that this sort of thing -- not summing to 100% -- is common-place and well-accepted. For example, chosen at random from a google search: http://www.sba.gov/IG/advisorymemoappendix00-12-01.pdf . Has your boss heard the phrase "good enough for government work"? ;-) Barring that, one ironclad solution is to change the last formula in order to force the sum to be 100%. Of course, this is valid only when you know the numbers do indeed represent 100% -- that is, no data errors. For example: A1: 6074 A2: 7052 A3: 6105 A4: =sum(A1:A2) B1: =round(A1/A4,2) B2: =round(A2/A4,2) B3: =round(1-sum(B1:B2),2) B4: =sum(B1:B3) However, the manager of Office 3 might complain because his percentage is underreported, since 31.75% is closer to 32%, not 31%. |
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