Dividend transaction results in unbalanced balance sheet

[John Schoffstall]

Sorry, forgot to report version number. It's 1.8.10, the version available through the official repositories for Debian etch.

== John

Derek Atkins 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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