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    Cannot get correct % figure on this

    I am building a spreadsheet to track fuel costs and echoing the utility companies charges, I have managed to echo the companies charges to my calculaions to within a % of a penny, for the life of me and I have tried all day I cannot get the last calculation to work, which is add on 5% VAT.

    The cell in question is V11 (in red) the value is currently is £78.73 which is what the utility company also has at that point, however when the utility company adds 5% the answer they get is £82.65 and I cannot get anywhere near that.
    I have tried adding *105% and +5% to the formula and a couple of other variations but none get close.

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    Re: Cannot get correct % figure on this

    Looks pretty straight forward to me.
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    Re: Cannot get correct % figure on this

    V11=((e11+t11)-(p11+n11))*105%
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    Re: Cannot get correct % figure on this

    Mmmm yes I see how you have done that and it makes sense I have been trying to do it by adding on to the end of the formula in V11 and thats what I cant get working.

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    Re: Cannot get correct % figure on this

    ((e11+t11)-(p11+n11))*105% thanks oeldere, that works exactly as I want.
    May I ask why the double parentheses ((....)) at each end before adding the *105% as that is obviously where I was going wrong.
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    Re: Cannot get correct % figure on this

    (e11+t11)-(p11+n11)*105%

    will count (p11+N11)*105% and counts minus the value in (e11+t11).


    In my formula it first needs to count ((e11+t11)-(p11+n11)) and after that multiply by 105%.

    Hope I explained well enough.

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    Re: Cannot get correct % figure on this

    Yes I now understand that, thanks for your explanation.

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