Unrealized Gains (Again)

[John Ralls]

> On Mar 6, 2017, at 8:26 PM, Edward Doolittle <edward.doolittle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 6 March 2017 at 22:13, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto: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?

Maybe not. I was thinking about that as I wrote it.

But I always worry that there are use cases that I haven't thought about when I have the urge to do something dictatorial like that.

Regards,
John Ralls