Allocation

Allocate by Ratios

My company made a whopping profit of 5 cents, which has to be divided amongst myself (70%) and my investor (30%). Cents can’t be divided, so I can’t give 3.5 and 1.5 cents. If I round up, I get 4 cents, the investor gets 2, which means I need to conjure up an additional cent. Rounding down to 3 and 1 cent leaves me 1 cent.

Apart from re-investing that cent in the company, the best solution is to keep handing out the remainder until all money is spent. This is done by first calculating everybody’s share, rounded-down. Finally the remainder fractions are allocated one by one to the targets, the one with most lost due the rounding-down in previous step now coming first.

In other words:

use Money\Money;

$profit = Money::EUR(5);
list($my_cut, $investors_cut) = $profit->allocate([70, 30]);
// $my_cut is 4 cents, $investors_cut is 1 cent

// The order is important:
list($investors_cut, $my_cut) = $profit->allocate([30, 70]);
// $my_cut is 3 cents, $investors_cut is 2 cents

Allocate to N targets

An amount of money can be allocated to N targets using allocateTo().

$value = Money::EUR(800);           // €8.00

$result = $value->allocateTo(3);    // $result = [€2.67, €2.67, €2.66]