Dividend transaction results in unbalanced balance sheet

[Derek Atkins]

That's certainly quite possible.

-derek

John Schoffstall <john.schoffstall at pobox.com> writes:

> 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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