Case Problem

[Timso]

Hi All,

I've been thinking for a very long time but still can't seem to find a solution to solve this problem in Excel. Would appreciate any kind of suggestions.

Basically i have 2 spreadsheets:

1) First sheet has the following headings:

Employee, OT Hours Banked, Date Banked, Deadline Date to be used (it is 3 months after date banked)

2) Second sheet has following headings:

Employee, OT Hours Used, Date used

Both sheets will have a lot of records with different employees banking and using OT hours on different dates.


The problem I am trying to solve is when an employee uses their OT hours on the second sheet, how do I apply it to the earliest date banked on the 1st sheet for the same employee

I'm thinking of having a 3rd sheet with the following fields:

Employee, Due Date, OT Hours Available

So is there any formula or method I can use to subtract/take away the used hours from the earliest date on their banked hours so that my 3rd sheet will have the employee records that have outstanding OT Banked hours available (with all the used OT hours applied to earliest dates not showing) on the 3rd sheet. I really can't think of anything, really appreciate any help, thanks!

[royUK]

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