Decimal Places and Rounding

[Derek Atkins]

I think the answer is "you cannot do that with a currency".  If you
want to do this you'll need to create a new commodity (that happens
to just be 1:1 with USD) and track it that way.

-derek

"rlrcstr" <rlrcstr at msn.com> writes:

> Derek -
>
> The account is an asset account.  I'm tracking loans that I have an interest
> in.  Each month when a payment is made on the loan I receive a portion of
> the payment equal to the percent of participation I have in the loan.  Part
> of what I receive gets credited towards the principal that's owed back to me
> and part is interest income.  The amounts are calculated to 6 decimal
> places.
>
> I was using an asset account, since it's not really a commodity.  But I can
> use a different account type if it will make a difference.  How would you
> set this up?  Thanks.
>
> J
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:50 AM
> To: "rlrcstr" <rlrcstr at msn.com>
> Cc: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: Decimal Places and Rounding
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> "rlrcstr" <rlrcstr at msn.com> writes:
>>
>>> I've played with every option I can find:  The preferences settings
>>> and the fraction settings in specific to the account, but I can't
>>> seem to enter a transaction without gnucash rounding it to 2
>>> decimals.  Even when it's displaying 6 decimals and I enter a value
>>> to the 6th decimal place, it immediately rounds it when I tab off
>>> of it.  How do I set it up so that it doesn't round?  Thanks.
>>
>> What version of GnuCash?
>> What account type?
>> What commodity?
>> What's the commodity SCU?
>> What's the account SCU setting?
>>
>>> J
>>
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>>
>> -derek
>>
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>
>

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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