RE: finding differences in a list of amounts

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BTW, thanks to all who have thus far replied.

I agree that understanding the process behind the numbers is important.  But
some systems aren't as well documented as others and when one is in a
time-crunch situation...

It's usually during the month-end process, and they're trying to close the
books.  It's 4pm Friday, and that's not the time I typically look forward to
having an emergency on my hands.

A tool like I'm describing would do one of two or three things.  If it finds
a solution, it makes it much easier to track down the missing data and guide
me to the logic where it failed to be "selected".  If it doesn't find a
solution, then I know I'm not (necessarily?) dealing with missing amounts,
but perhaps a transposition of some sort.

So, the tool may not be the end-all, be-all solution, but it seems to me
that it could be a big time-saver.

Besides, the exercise seems to be a challenge. <g>  Joe & I think alike in
this regard.

db