Entering Fractions on Funds

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting Renato Moutinho <renato.moutinho at gmail.com>:

> Hi there,
>
>   I'm trying to setup a Mutual Fund
> account (for an investment I previously owned) where the smallest fraction
> traded for the fund is 0.2 (1/5). For this, I've created the fund on the
> security editor with a fraction traded value of 1/5.
> I want to register also the brokerage fees payed, however I'm having a
> hard time
> on both of these things..

You didn't mention what version of gnucash you're using....

> First: When I enter an "Initial Balance" transaction with a value of
> 7.6shares, gnucash converts that to 7 + 1/2 (which is
> 7.5). Fair enough, I tought... So I tried entering 7 + 1/5, instead of 7.6
> . However it changes the value, heaven knows why, to 7+1/4 (7.25).

This is very strange.  But honestly you're probably better off
keeping the SCU at 100.

[snip]
> Then I click on Split. It gives me two lines. The first one filled with the
> buy action totalling the number of shares and the total value and the second
> empty. On the second line I try to register the brokerage fee by selecting:
>
> Action: Fee
> Description: Brokerage Fees payed
> Account: Equity Opening Balances
> Buy: 47.62 (the value of the fee payed)
>
> then I click on close and save the transaction.. When I look at the report,
> I don't see the brokerage fee on the last column.. Going back to the fund
> account I realize there's an imbalance with the value of 47.62. Anyone knows
> how I should register this so the values show up correctly on the report ?

This sounds like http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116353
What's your locale currency?  And what's the currencies of the accounts
in question?

> Regards,
>
> Renato Moutinho

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-derek

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