Any way to correct the running total of shares?

[Graham P Davis]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 15:02:11 -0500
Keith Bellairs <keith at bellairs.org> wrote:

> Another possibility is that after you entered the number of shares,
> if the $$ and price did not match up it can adjust one of the three
> (total, price per share and number of shares). Does your transaction
> still show 187 shares?
> 
> I have kept stocks in gnc for a long time and have never seen this
> problem. Computers are extraordinarily good at arithmetic.
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> > >

Thanks for the suggestions but, as Geert suggested in his reply in
"GNUcash Price Editor", the problem is associated with 2.6.0. Version
2.6.1 just arrived on openSUSE and that showed that deleted entries
were merely hidden and so the totals were still added to the "balance"
column.

I've only just started putting my investments on GNUcash - previously
only used it for cash and banking etc. - so I was unsure whether it was
a mistake of mine that had caused the problem. I suppose in a way it
was, in that my many beginner's false steps stayed on the system instead
of being deleted.  

Anyway, thanks again and also thanks to Geert.

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