Some issues with gnucash

[Dave Peticolas]

--=-snTFutrjyssW6qLOghtc
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 02:44, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:42:10PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 05:55, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > > [Please CC any replies, as I'm subscribed no-post]
> > >=20
> > > - In the documentation, the portfolio report shows profit/loss, yet i=
t
> > > doesn't when I make one. I think this is a new feature.
> >=20
> > Actually an old feature that never really worked correctly.
> > It was removed.
>=20
> Really? Unfortunate. It would be useful...
>=20
> > > - On one of my securities, when I fetch latest quotes from the web, t=
he
> > > value comes out as '0 + 6 / 125'. Now, that is the right value, but i=
t's
> > > kind of hard to work it out. All the calculations work out fine, it j=
ust
> > > confusing. The finance-quote-helper is returning a real decimal value=
.
> >=20
> > What fraction do you have set for the security?
>=20
> Well, I've set it to 10000. Not exactly sure why. I used to have some iss=
ues
> with the prices being rounded to whole dollars and I think this fixed it.=
 Of
> course it's silly because you can only buy whole units.
>=20
> IIRC, I would type in 10,000 shares at 0.065 and it converted it to 650
> shares at $1 each, which is just crazy.

That problem sounds like a stock account without a security field set.


> Does it matter? Any ideas?

I think it's mainly a display issue. Shouldn't affect totals, reports,=20
etc.

dave


--=-snTFutrjyssW6qLOghtc
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc
Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

iD8DBQA8We1k5effKKCmfpIRAm/kAJ9/xLkgjz0eJj1oUwcidREn6xHXQgCgzXjS
DxajJM0kiy/jP8uceoifRoo=
=cxDg
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--=-snTFutrjyssW6qLOghtc--