Leave as a percentage

Morning I know this might have been answered before, but when I change the leave to calculate on an hourly basis ( percentage) Reckon seems to always over ride the last digit value. That is if I type in 0.0769230(for annual leave calculations) it will ask for only 5 decimal places. So if I shorten this to 0.07692 it will automatically change it to 0.07694. Is this just a rounding thing? Personal leave is similar.

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Zappy

It is intensely frustrating. I don't understand why this bug hasn't been fixed lo these many years. I've taken to substituting minutes per normal hours worked. Let me know if you need any help Kevin 0407744914. The accrual rate is 0:04:36 per normal hours for annual leave and half that for personal leave. And thanks for your question

John Graetz

I agree with you Kevin. It is a frustrating, annoying and seemingly illogical interference with what we input.

John L G

Traceyg

Thanks Kevin & John for your replies.

This has helped me a lot! 😊

Acctd4

@Traceyg It is annoying but it’s just a rounding issue so you can leave it as per Reckon’s calculation.

Personally, I never use minutes - I find the decimal format far easier to work with 😁

Zappy

Acctd4 wrong. Its a bug. It should be fixed. John G, I agree with me too.

John Graetz

Sorry Shaz, for once I have to disagree with you. This cannot be put down to a rounding issue when Reckon blatantly changes the figure that I input. I am inputting as strictly 5 digits. The result is:

For personal leave my fifth decimal point is input and accepted exactly as I input - no problem
For annual leave my fifth decimal point is input as a 6 but Reckon, for no known reason, won't accept my input but changes it to a 7. Okay, not a dramatic difference but why change what I have input?
For Long Service Leave, my fifth decimal point is input as a 1 but somehow Reckon decides that a 1 is not correct and instead it should be a 7.

What sort of an accounting program would we have is Reckon arbitrarily elected to change the cents figure for a financial input that we make? As I said earlier, this is not a rounding issue as I have not used a sixth decimal point. Instead it has to be put down to Reckon deciding that they know more than me and refuse to allow me to input the figure that I want. If it is not a bug, why is it bugging me and others so much?

John L G

Acctd4

@John Graetz My understanding is that this issue is part of the hard-wired coding that was inherited from Intuit which is why Reckon have been unable to fix it.

However, the specifics you've noted there are interesting, as for me:

For personal leave my fifth decimal point is input as a 6 and changes from 0.03846 to 0.03833
For annual leave my fifth decimal point is input as a 2 but it changes it to a 4.
For Long Service Leave, my fifth decimal point is input as a 7 & remains unchanged.

This makes me wonder if maybe it's actually system/user configuration-related then, if the results vary ? 🤦‍♀️

John Graetz

Very interesting indeed, Shaz. The personal leave figure of .03833 is exactly what I input and itis the only one that doesn't get changed! As to the reason for all of this is anybody's guess. This is particularly the case when we come to annual salaries where Reckon apparently believes that there are only 364 days in a year, rather than 365 and 366 in a leap year. Why do I know this? Because Reckon divides the input of an annual salary figure by only 52 weeks or 364 days in a year. Don't get me going on this one! This has been a flaw since the late1990s, going back to QuickBooks days.

John L G

Zappy

We discussed this. Its a bug. And Reckon appear not to be bothered to fix it. They have the tools. I dont know why

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