Fractional shares

[David Hampton]

On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 18:19 +0200, Benjamin So wrote:
> Actually, upon reflecting on this, why is it necessary to specify  
> fractions in both the commodity and the share account? Am I missing  
> something, or does this seem redundant? Potentially, you could have  
> multiple share accounts based on the one, fractional commodity, which  
> would result in each of these accounts having to be set to enable  
> fractional trading.

The next major release of gnucash will allow you to set the account
fraction to a setting of "use commodity value".

> Similarly, why is the "download online quotes" flag available at the  
> account, rather than at the commodity level? I'm sure there's a good  
> reason for this, but I can't quite see it.

This has also been changed in the source code.  Again, you'll see the
change in the next major release of gnucash.

David