[AccessD] Access rounding scenario

Heenan, Lambert Lambert.Heenan at chartisinsurance.com
Mon Aug 22 12:29:41 CDT 2011


I would suggest just maintaining an array of line item costs and line item shipping costs. Sum up the line item shipping costs and deduct the total from the total shipping costs calculated earlier. If the difference (+ or -) is non-zero then add the difference to the shipping cost for the most costly item.

Lambert

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lawrence Mrazek
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 1:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access rounding scenario

Correct, the aim is to spread this cost among these three (or however many detail items) proportionally. 

Larry Mrazek
lmrazek at lcm-res.com
ph. 314-496-1645


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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Benson
(VBACreations.Com)
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 11:56 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access rounding scenario

Are you saying transport is always 12.5%? Or are you saying you happened to charge (in this instance a straight $100) and the objective is to spread that over 3 items proportionally?


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lawrence Mrazek
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 12:17 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] Access rounding scenario

Hi folks:

Here is the scenario. 

We have a shipping record (with details on where the shipment is going, etc.).  Linked to this is the details table, containing line item details on exactly what is in the shipment, plus, on occasion, an extra transport charge.

For a report, the client would like to have the transport charge applied to each item in the shipment.

Thus, if the shipment contains the following charges:
Material 1: $200
Material 2: $200
Material 3: $400
Transport:  $100
They'd want the report to show;

Material	Charge	Transport
Material 1: $200		$25
Material 2: $200		$25
Material 3: $400		$50

Currently, I'm trying to do this by calculating a ratio of the materials to the total (material 1 = .25, material 2=.25, material 3= .50), and multiplying this by the total transport.

While this works for the above numbers, I'm getting some rounding errors (I
think) when dealing with other numbers and I need the transport charges to add up correctly.

Any hints about how to do this? 

Larry Mrazek
lmrazek at lcm-res.com
ph. 314-496-1645


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