For a particular transaction in my bank account, I’ve tagged it as a transfer to an associated internal Merchant account, and in that Merchant account I can break down the total into separate components (e.g. sales and commission) and tag those separately.
I get the values for each component (sales and commission) from raw data from the client (in spreadsheet format). Usually, these match up exactly to the overall amount actually paid into the account. But a couple of months ago, there was a very small difference (£0.16). I was hoping that the raw data for the next month would have a similar discrepancy in the opposite direction, but it didn’t, so I’m left with a very small non-zero balance in my Merchant account.
I can’t yet figure out why the discrepancy occurred. But, rather than spend hours more on this, my feeling is that because this amount is so insignificant, is there a way of just transferring it into some internal account, for “unexplained” values like this that don’t really have a material impact on anything?
