Sales tax rounding and other rounding issues

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

John Zoetebier <john.zoetebier at transparent.co.nz> writes:

> When I receive a bill from a vendor quite often the sales tax
> calculated by gnucash is 1 cent out.
> At the moment I solve this bu adding tenths of cents until the right
> sales tax is shown.
> It would be very handy if the sales tax field was writable.
> That way I can set it directly in accordance with the vendor invoice.
> 
> An other usefull feature would be to select the type of rounding:
> 1) >= 0.5 rouded up
> 2) <= 0.5 rounded down
> 
> It looks like most packages use method 1

These are equivalent except for what happens when it == 0.5000... 
I'm not sure what to suggest here.

> In addition I feel that invoices should work on 1 cent accurate.
> It is pointless to have the total invoice amount show a figure like 25.4295
> In some cases Process Payment shows an amoutn different from the
> actual bill, which means I have to fiddle with the bill amount until
> the payment amount is equal to the bill amount.

This has already been fixed in CVS.

-derek

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