2 questions on stock prices

[Jon Lapham]

rneri wrote:
> Hi, 
> I am using Gnucash 1.8.4, and I have set the default currency to Euro. 
> First question: how can I persuade Gnucash not to round stock prices when I enter a transaction (e.g. 0.9907 is automatically changed 
> to 1, which is not what I want)? 

Hmmm, well, you could turn on the preferences General -> "automatic 
decimal point" and set auto decimal places to 4.  This will affect 
everything you do, however, not just you stock portfolios.

Maybe there is a better way?  I don't know.

> Second question: in the Accounts main window, Gnucash shows the no. of shares; is there a way I can make it show the value (shares * 
> price) instead? 
>  


If you have a parent asset account above the stock account which has its
commodity set to euros, the value displayed in this parent account will
be your stocks*stock price

Like this:

-assets           EU 234
    -investments    EU 234
       -ABC Stock   100 ABC

(this is assuming you've set the stock price in the price editor)

The only wrinkle is that this parent account will sum up *all* the
accounts below it, so in the situation with multiple stocks:

-assets           EU 434
    -investments    EU 434
       -ABC Stock   100 ABC
       -DEF Stock   50 DEF

You do not see the value of each stock, just thte total value.


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