2 questions on stock prices

[Derek Atkins]

Jon Lapham <lapham at extracta.com.br> writes:

> 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.

You can check the "fraction" of the commodity...

> > 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

There is an easier way: Go to the "Options" of the account tree and
turn on the "total balance in report currency" column.

-derek

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