Understanding log files

[John Ralls]

On Nov 17, 2012, at 5:58 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am not an expert, but I seem to recall that Gnucash stores numbers as integers and uses division to represent the decimal portion. So, the amount you included is for a transaction of 335.75 (units determined by your settings). If you had set the account to use more decimal places (e.g. with stocks or mutual funds), the denominator would be larger.
> 
> If I am wrong, I am sure someone will correct me.
> 

Mostly right. The amount is the quantity of whatever in the split account commodity, and value is the same in the transaction currency. For most splits the two will be the same, because both the split account and the transaction are using the base currency. In the case of a stock, you might have amount = 10000/100, indicating 100 shares, and value = 5276800/100, meaning that your 100 shares was worth 52,768.00 in the transaction currency. (For the curious, that's AAPL's closing price on Friday, in US Dollars.)

Regards,
John Ralls


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> ________________________________
> From: uzumaki <uzumakifahim at gmail.com>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 9:27 AM
> Subject: Understanding log files
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I need to get the changes which is doing by a user. That's why I need to
> understand the log file, but I can't understand some sections of this log. I
> don't understand about the amount & value for this info. Please help anybody
> on this regards. I'll really grateful.
> 
> amount             value            date_reconciled
> 
> 33575/100     33575/100     1970-01-01 06:00:00.000000  +0600
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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