default behavior of mutual fund accounts

[Michael T. Garrison Stuber]

--On Friday, July 27, 2001 08:17:50 AM -0500 Bill Gribble 
<grib@billgribble.com> wrote:
> The good news is that the price is irrelevant for both accounting and
> tax purposes.  What matters is the number of shares you own and the
> amount of money that you paid or received for them, which your broker
> and your accounts must represent exactly.

This brings up two nagging little issues I have with GNUCash.   I do 
regular investment.  Thus I am often transfering some money from checking 
to an investment account:

#1  Gnucash defaults the number of shares to the number of dollars I 
transfered.  Thus if I invest 100, all of the sudden GNUCash thinks I have 
100 additional shares.  I would far prefer it if either (a) it used the 
most recent available price or (b) it used share price from most recent 
posted transaction.  Alternatively, if it could somehow save it so that it 
doesn't impact the share balance  until the share count is updated that 
could work too.

#2  The SplitLedger.c code defaults to correcting the value of the 
transaction, not the price if I update the number of shares.  I always 
begin with the money, then later (when I have a proper statement, or have 
dug one up on the web) update the number of shares.  As Bill elucidates in 
his email, the "price" is pretty meaningless.  The only thing that really 
matters is the number of shares, and my cost basis.  I have a oneline patch 
that "corrects" this behavior (I love open source! [On line 3116 change the 
2 to a 1] ).  Does this annoy anyone else?  Should this be turned into a 
configuration option?  Is there a reason that it defaults to the value, not 
the price?