Entering Fractions on Funds

[Derek Atkins]

"Renato Moutinho" <renato.moutinho at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Derek,
>
>     I'm using version 2.2.2. I've found out I was missing one thing.. The
> Smallest Fraction on the Account Properties was set to "Use commodity value".
> Changing that to 1/100 solved the issue with the 7.6 value.. However I'm still
> unabel to register the brokerage fee adequately..

You might just want to reset the commodity smallest fraction...

> Regarding the locale currency, it's set to BRL, as is the account locale
> currency.

Oh?  So if you run "locale" the currency (LC_MONETARY) is BRL?

> Regards,
>
> Renato Moutinho Silva

-derek

> On 12/27/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     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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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available