I work in a incentive payment area in a big telecommunication company, our work is to calculate the incentive compensation to some people related to the company depending on their sales. Sometimes the calculation is hard and data is not always clean, and sometimes I found mistakes in a calculation that should have been detected months ago. I always try to solve it as well as I can.
However, sometimes resolving those mistakes is so difficult that even bosses don't want to pay attention because no one cares (when calculation is for example 4 months old). I once heard my boss saying that higher position bosses know that we have a margin error due to complex calculations.
Is it ok to be like this? I recently found some mistakes in my friend's calculation but they don't seem to care and nothing happened (even audit came and all was fine).
Am I being too perfectionist? Or I should I understand that there are margins for errors? If I find an error in a calculation related to, for example, December 2020, should I review all the 2020's calculations (which obviously requires a lot of time)?