stock adjustments

[Steve Kelem]

The problem is that for ING Retirement accounts, the # shares in transactions don't add up to the amount
in their summary lines.  One of the ING reps said it's because internally they compute # shares to 6 decimal points, but tell their customers about only 3 of those decimals, so the numbers "may not add up."  For example, the sum of # shares in transactions comes to 73.003 shares, but the ING summary shows 73.000 or 73.006 shares.

So that I can reconcile my Gnucash representation of this account, I need to add dummy transactions.
My question is "What's the best form for this dummy transaction?"

Thanks,
Steve

Derek Atkins said the following on 04/21/2007 08:13 AM:
> I can't tell what you're trying to do here, even with the
> screenshot.  Sorry.
> 
> The two values that really matter are the #shares and the buy/sell
> column.  The "price" gets auto-computed.  So if you just touch the
> two columns and DONT touch the price column, it will auto-compute
> the price for you.
> 
> But I still dont understand what you're trying to do.
> 
> -derek
> 
> Steve Kelem <steve at kelem.net> writes:
> 
>> How do I make "adjustments" to the number of shares of stock in an account?
>> I have the misfortune of having ING for my company's 401(k) plan.
>> Besides not using the public NAV for funds, they don't report the full
>> number of shares/units in the account.
>> The differences are small, but small is not equal to zero, and so
>> gnucash won't let me balance the account.
>> How do I add or subtract a number of shares from an account?  I tried
>> drawing the number of shares from Equity:Account Balances, but the price
>> per share gets munged to $10 and I get an extra line in the transaction
>> with a $1 price- no shares no dollar amount.
>>
>> Attached is a screenshot.
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can give.
>> Steve
>> P.S. I'm running gnucash 2.0.5 on SuSE Linux 10.0.
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