Mutual fund prices precision

[farleykj]

I tried this out, via the following, pretty much as you described:
(1) enter 47.889 shares in that column.
(2) enter 4.76 in the price column
Make no other entries, <tab> through to the next line of the split.
The result is the total is calculated as 227.95. This results in the price
per share being adjusted to the 4.75997 value. The number of shares is
unchanged. Thus I don't understand what you mean by the final share count
being off.
I suspect what's happening is because the registers are only allowing the
balance column to represent numbers with two decimal places, since we're
dealing with dollars and cents. It calculates the total to be 47.889 * 4.76
= 227.95164, rounds that to 227.95, then recalculates the price to be
4.75997.



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