Rounding of Numbers

[Yardley CPA]

Not sure if this topic has been discussed or not? Past ATX additions allowed you to input numbers (including cents) and it would automatically round the number for you. I now notice that when entering numbers on certain forms (8949) I receive an error message that does not allow entering of cents. Is there a way to inform the program to round automatically, allowing cents to be entered?

[Jack from Ohio]

I have never entered cents. .50 an up round up. .49 and less round down. No issues.

[Mr. Pencil]

I now notice that when entering numbers on certain forms (8949) I receive an error message that does not allow entering of cents.

I've noticed that IRS transcripts usually round everything down, simply dropping the cents. So sometimes I do it that way, too.

[Yardley CPA]

Jack...I understand that and appreciate the suggestion. It just seems to flow easier being able to input the number as given on the document and then have the program round as it has done in the past.

[easytax]

Not sure if this topic has been discussed or not? Past ATX additions allowed you to input numbers (including cents) and it would automatically round the number for you. I now notice that when entering numbers on certain forms (8949) I receive an error message that does not allow entering of cents. Is there a way to inform the program to round automatically, allowing cents to be entered?

No setting ---- the number of letters, numbers, rounding, etc. for all data entries are set by whichever programmer section wrote the code for the form. Therefore it would be a request to CCH/ATX to have their programmers do the "rounding" coding. Which by the way, is unfortunately done differently by whichever programmer writes that particular form. --- can be seen in many of the "date" fields on the forms ---- some allow just a day and month and will self fill --- others require day, month, year or you get an edit error --- some require a two digit day or month, some do not ---- depends on the program coder.

[KINGCHUCK1971]

I round my numbers out of habit. Being doing so for 24 years even when I use to prepare returns by hand. It's never to late to start.

[mcb39]

I round my numbers out of habit. Being doing so for 24 years even when I use to prepare returns by hand. It's never to late to start.

I always round the numbers myself when entering the data. There is a choice under Preferences as to whether to print zeros or not.

[jklcpa]

Yardley, no setting exists that allows you to enter cents and have the program round for you. If some areas of the program are still allowing you to enter dollars and cents, I suppose you could continue on as you've done in the past and correcting those areas that are generating the error messages. It seems to me that you'd be better off being consistent by making all of your data entry in whole numbers though.

[Yardley CPA]

For me and what I am used to, It just would flow much more easily if we were able to enter the data exactly as its reflected on the forms we receive. In the past, the ATX program allowed you to enter the numbers exactly as they are presented on the W2's, 1099's etc, there was no interpretation involved. The program would then round the numbers automatically. I recognize I can manually data enter whole numbers. It just seems odd that the program (at least on some of the forms) does not round automatically.