Two different total costs - which is correct?

Anyone encountered this before?

[Elric99]

Hi - I've got an Overture problem I can't make sense of. Here's the description of the problem:

I log into my account, and on the Account Summary, I set the time perioud for the stats to Month to date, it shows $248 bucks as the total cost for the month and all clicks so far.

Then I click Manage Sponsored Search and set the time perioud to Month to date. Next to all listings, I see the total to be $191.

Why would the Total Cost under the Account Summary page and the Total Cost on the Manage Sponsored Search page be different? It doesn't make sense.

Oh and I'm not using Content Match.

Thanks for any light you can shed on this.

[sem4u]

Hi Elric99 and welcome to Webmasterworld! :)

I'm not sure why there would be a difference but I do know that sometimes the Account Summary stats are not always up to date.

It is best to run a report for the month so far and use that figure.