Strange completion behavior

[Derek Atkins]

The "price" is calculated, not stored, so it's not really "fixed" per
se.  The only values that are stored are the #Shares and the Buy/Sell
Value.  The price is computed on-the-fly as Buy/Shares (or
Sell/Shares).

I can see what you're getting, but I don't understand it either.  If I
go in and modify it a second time I can get it to be 0.0417 shares at
187.05, for 7.80, which is certainly closer.

You might need to modify your account (or commodity) to accept a
larger significant digit calculation.  You might also want to file a
bug report about the initial math, because it shouldn't round to 0.04.

-derek

Christopher Stawarz <cstawarz at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I just started using GnuCash (version 1.8.9 on Debian
> testing), and I'm really puzzled at how it's
> completing some transactions that I enter in the
> register window.  Here's what's happening:
>
> I'm trying to enter a share purchase into a mutual
> fund account via the account register.  I enter the
> date, the name of the parent account (of type "Bank")
> in the "Transfer" column, the share price in the
> "Price" column, and the amount I'm investing in the
> "Buy" column.  I then hit enter, expecting that the
> "Shares" column will be calculated as Buy/Price.
>
> The numbers I enter are
>
>   Price = 187.1172
>   Buy   = 7.80
>
> So when I press "Enter", I expect to see the
> transaction created with the Price and Buy values I
> entered, and Shares set to 0.0417 (+/- a few decimal
> places).  Instead, the recorded values are
>
>   Shares = 0.04
>   Price  = 195
>   Buy    = 7.80
>
> While these values are consistent with each other,
> they are not the values I wanted entered.  Even if
> GnuCash does want to round Shares down to 2 decimal
> places, there's no reason for it to change Price
> (which is fixed).
>
> Can someone explain why GnuCash changes the Price
> column and how I can get it to behave as I'd expect? 
> I'd appreciate any help.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
>
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