share prices and rounding errors, cannot reconcile extra pennies

Mike Alexander mta at umich.edu
Sat Feb 22 17:52:31 EST 2014


--On February 22, 2014 4:27:22 PM -0500 Jeff Earickson 
<jaearick at colby.edu> wrote:

> A penny here, a penny there, and pretty soon your cash account is 7
> or 8 cents off and you can't reconcile.  Is there a fix for this in
> Gnucash? How do other deal with this annoyance?

I just enter the number of shares purchased and the total cost and let 
GnuCash calculate the price (which it is happy to do).  The price is 
usually different than the one reported on the statement, but this 
doesn't really matter.

                Mike
 


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