Rounding discrepancies [1.4.7]

[Dave Peticolas]

Andrea Borgia writes:
> Hi.
> 
> If I buy 3301.82 share at 5.454 each, gnucash computes the total value
> of the transaction as 605.3942. The statement issued by the investment
> bank round this amount to 605.394.
> 
> How do I deal with this situation? Should I adjust the share price (tt
> might not be possible since gnucash is using 3 digits for decimals in
> that field, too) or is there a way to tell gnucash how do behave in
> that case?

The only thing to do now is adjust the share price. The next
version (2.0) of GnuCash will allow you to set the number of
decimal places for rounding, but the current version does not
have that capability.

dave