Dividend transaction results in unbalanced balance sheet

[John Schoffstall]

The transaction appears to be correct, viewed on either side. The Chart of Accounts gives correct number with respect to both shares owned and value.

BTW, today, for no good reason, the extra penny has disappeared from the balance sheet. I'm back in balance again.

Which makes me think that the problem is somehow related to daily fluctuations in the price of the mutual fund involved, with a rounding error, or errors, in the report mechanism.

== John 

Derek Atkins wrote:
> So here's one question:  is the transaction itself incorrect?
> If you view the transaction from the bank side, are the numbers
> correct?  Is it only wrong in the reports?  Or is it incorrect
> in the Chart of Accounts, too?
> 
> I'd ask you to test 1.9.x but it's unclear if this is fixed there.
> 
> -derek
> 
> John Schoffstall <john.schoffstall at pobox.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>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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