2 cents difference on posted earnings

?

[toldan]

The difference between my "actual" monthly earnings for November and "posted" earnings is 2 cents difference.

Why?

(I am just curious. Why?)

[hunderdown]

Different rounding errors? A 2-cent click removed?

[Zygoot]

Very small positive or negative $0.0x differences between my actual and monthly earnings happen sometimes.

I think it's just rounding.

[mzanzig]

I noticed the same, but it's really strange that in 2005, years after Microsoft fixed their Excel rounding bug, there still is software that cannot even calculate simple additions properly. It takes away confidence, like: "If they can't even do THAT, how about the rest of the program?"

Or, they calculate with fractions of a cent and choose to do the rounding at the end of the month...

[Jenstar]

Longterm publishers (ie. those who have been a publisher since the beginning) have long since noticed discrepancies of 1-3 cents a pay period. Some would report higher, others lower, so we always suspected they would all balance out in the end.

[jomaxx]

As others have said, It's probably because Google deals in fractions of cents. (With advertisers bidding as little as one cent in some circumstances, they don't have much choice.) The amount in the payment history would be the sum of all the fractional amounts; the amount in the reports is rounded to the nearest cent each day.

It's not absolutely the most accurate way to do the reports, but can you imagine how many people would complain if the report total line was different from the apparent sum of the individual lines?