Unrealized Gains (Again)

Edward Doolittle edward.doolittle at gmail.com
Mon Mar 6 23:26:43 EST 2017


On 6 March 2017 at 22:13, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

You *always* want GnuCash to compute the price. Always. That's because if
> you feed it a rounded price you get an inexact result
> in either amount or value, and that's what gets stored. If you give it the
> exact amount and value then it might display a rounded price, but the
> stored amount and value are correct and GnuCash will always recalculate the
> price and maybe round it for display so there's no error.
>

Maybe, then, users shouldn't be given the option of entering the price?

-- 
Edward Doolittle
Associate Professor of Mathematics
First Nations University of Canada
1 First Nations Way, Regina SK S4S 7K2

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et un ingrat. »
-- Louis XIV, dans Voltaire, Le Siècle de Louis XIV, Chap. XXVI


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