Unbalanced balance sheet

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 10:34 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> However, that's not the only way to cause a balance-sheet imbalance.
> Another way is not accounting for capital gains/losses when you sell a
> commodity other than your report-currency.  Gnucash 1.8 does not
> properly account for the change-in-value of commodities, which means
> your balance sheet will be out of balance.

This prompted me to check my own (if no one can think of a good reason
why no, perhaps I'll submit this as a feature request - i.e. whether the
accounts balance at a particular date - or indeed it should be possible
for Gnucash to isolate the transactions that do not balance).

Anyway, needless to say, as I'm an engineer, not an accountant, my
balance sheet wasn't. I tracked down the (first) problem transaction
(all the accounts are in GBP, my reporting currency is EUR):

It is a split:

Shares Assets:Share    195.91
Fee    Expenses          4.09
Shares Assets:Current -200.00

Although curiously the accounts are out of balance at this point by EUR
4.10 (not GBP 4.09),

Why is this split causing my accounts to become unbalanced?

Jeff
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