That's the same way I started, the went to (Lotus) @if(round(blah blah blah,3)" ","NOT BALANCED"). Just a blank cell (" ") if balanced, but if it isn't ("NOT BALANCED") - much easier to see quickly.
And the rounding to 3 places always caught the discrepancies of mis-entering the cents (ie. 125.513).
Incidentally, that was a problem the old "spreadsheet based" ATX had. Formula "display" rounding to 2 places, but the formula itself did not round.