Dividend transaction results in unbalanced balance sheet

[Jim Muchow]

This will happen especially with mutual fund/stock re-investments.

I don't think it's an error - rounding or otherwise. I've seen it in
both GnuCash and Q*****n. With the latter, I used create penny
or two commisions (sometimes even negative ones). GnuCash
sort of prevents this so now I adjust the price of the offending object
to handle this situation. The fact is that penny ot two will cause a very
small (ie, insignificant tax-wise) price change.

Just my two cents. Heh.

On 4/14/06, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> It certainly sounds like a rounding "error", but not necessarily in
> the math routines.  More likely the rounding in the report is
> different than the rounding in the Chart of Accounts..
>
> What version of GnuCash?
>
> -derek
>
> Quoting John Schoffstall <john.schoffstall at pobox.com>:
>
> > This is odd.
> >
> > My 403(b) received three dividends on March 22, and three lots of its
> > mutual fund were purchased. Dividend was credited to
> > Income:Dividends. Since the purchase, my balance sheet has been off
> > by penny.
> >
> > I've tracked down the offending transaction to that
> > dividend/reinvestment. If I take those transactions out, the balance
> > sheet balances. If not, it doesn't. I've tried changing the balance
> > sheet's Options -> 'Price Source', but no dice. I've tried lumping
> > the three dividends together into one transaction, but the same thing
> > happens, off by a penny. I've deleted the transactions and reentered
> > them several times. Same thing happens. (I.e., it's not a typo.) Each
> > individual dividend reinvestment transaction is balanced.
> >
> > The penny off balance is annoying. Given the tiny size, maybe this is
> > rounding error in the math routines?
> >
> > Anyone else seen this? Any ideas for a fix?
> >
> > == John
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