diff --git a/admin/check_parent_total.pl b/admin/check_parent_total.pl
index 653a9f2b0b..ce7453a99f 100755
--- a/admin/check_parent_total.pl
+++ b/admin/check_parent_total.pl
@@ -96,6 +96,10 @@ else {
     $budget_period_unalloc = $period->{'budget_period_total'} - $period_sum->{'sum'} if $period->{'budget_period_total'};
 }
 
+# FIXME - we really need a better way to do this consistently
+# and across the board, be it bigints, Math::FixedPoint, a
+# modernized version of Math::Curency that isn't tied to the system
+# locale, or something else.
 $total                 = sprintf( "%.2f", $total );
 $sub_unalloc           = sprintf( "%.2f", $sub_unalloc );
 $budget_period_unalloc = sprintf( "%.2f", $budget_period_unalloc );