Entering Fractions on Funds

[Renato Moutinho]

Hello Derek,

     sorry for the trouble.. The issue with the brokerage fee was a matter
of complete misunderstanding on accounting from me. I forgot about the
double entry concept and wasn´t registering correctly where the fee should
come from and where they should go to (Equity:Initial Balance and
Expenses:Brokerage Fees respectively, this last one created by me).

Regards,

Renato
On Dec 27, 2007 12:04 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> "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
> >
> >     --
> >            Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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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
>