Sales tax rounding and other rounding issues

[John Zoetebier]

On 10 Jul 2003 12:23:02 -0400, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Roland Roberts <roland at astrofoto.org> writes:
>
>> Derek> These are equivalent except for what happens when it ==
>> Derek> 0.5000...  I'm not sure what to suggest here.
>>
>> I think his point was that he would like to be able to pick which
>> rounding is done.  Maybe he's seeing cases where he thinks it makes a
>> difference in amount of fiddling he has to do.
>
> To what degree?  Should it be available globally?  Per Customer/Vendor?
> Per Invoice?

A global setting, as rounding methods can differ.
For example QuickBooks has a global rounding setting.
More important though is the ability to change sales tax on a bill.
This avoids fiddling with the billing amount.

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John Zoetebier
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