Any way to correct the running total of shares?

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Sun Feb 2 14:29:46 EST 2014


At Sun, 2 Feb 2014 16:33:33 +0000 Graham P Davis <hacker at scarlet-jade.com> wrote:

> 
> GNUcash seems to think that adding 187 shares to the running total of
> 12,306 gives an answer of 13,481. I know it's over fifty years since I
> went to school but surely the new maths hasn't gone that weird?

Are you sure you are adding *shares* and not *dollars*?  Eg, would $187.00 buy 
1175 shares (at $0.16 a share)?

> 
> It seemed to get itself in a muddle because the shares were a stock
> dividend and therefore zero-priced but I can't see why that should
> matter. 
> 
> Is there a way to give GNUcash the equivalent of a whack over the
> knuckles with a ruler and get it to have another go at getting the
> right answer?  
> 

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