Fractional share purchases

[Derek Atkins]

Edit the share account and set the commodity fraction.

-derek

Quoting Ben <allegro at clear.net.nz>:

> Hi there,
>
> I've subscribed to a dividend re-investment programme, which
> results in the purchase of fractions of shares. I thought I
> could account for this by going into the commodity editor
> and setting the value of "fraction traded" to "1/1000".
>
> However, GnuCash rounds up the amount of my fractional
> shares
> to 2 (should really have been 1.729) and changes the price
> accordingly.
> Now my shareholding is overstated by 0.271 shares; not
> exactly
> significant in the great scheme of things, but I'd still
> like to
> get this right.
>
> Are there any other settings to be made for this to work?
>
> Ben
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