Cannot enter correct stock transaction in GnuCash

Scott Simpson simpson100 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 6 13:25:08 EDT 2008


On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>  Quoting Scott Simpson <simpson100 at gmail.com>:
> > I'm trying to enter a stock transaction in a stock account in GnuCash.
> > The amount of the buy is $461.88 and the price is $122.02 (which comes
> > out to approximately 3.7853 shares). Whenever I enter the price of
> > $122.02 and the shares as 3.7852811 it shortens the shares to 3.7853
> > and changes the price to $122.019 and make a new row with a tenth of a
> > cent. How do I stop it from doing this? Thank you.
>  GnuCash considers the # shares and total value to be the primary
>  information.  The "price" is just a computed value.  However, the
>  software will attempt to compute it for you if you only enter #shares
>  and price.  But storage-wise it only stores the #shares and total-value.
>  If your number is off then I suggest you just enter the #shares and
>  total value and let it compute the price for you.

That doesn't seem to work either. I enter just the amount $461.88 and
the shares as 3.7853 and it creates the share price as $122.019 and it
always creates another line with a tenth of a cent. I tried this on a
completely new transaction and it isn't working. Thanks.


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