stock adjustments

rlu53417 at earthlink.net rlu53417 at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 23 03:54:51 EDT 2007


What stops you from doing your own share calculation up front instead
of relying on their bad numbers?

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 10:45:30PM -0700, Steve Kelem wrote:
> 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


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