[GNC] Stock Entry Issue with Version 3.8

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Timothy,

In the stock register, shares and amount are more important for tracking purposes (and tax purposes), so you need to enter only the shares and Tot Buy columns and GnuCash will calculate the price. Due to rounding adjustments, the price may be off by a little bit from your actual price, but that can be ignored. This way, you will have your share balance computed correctly.

Cheers.

> On 25-Mar-2020, at 11:51 PM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:21:17 -0500
> From: "Dr. Timothy B. Jones" <tbj at timothybjones.net <mailto:tbj at timothybjones.net>>
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> Greetings:
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> On 12/13 I entered a stock trade on a new stock added to the database without incident.  On 12/31 I upgraded to Version 3.8....Windows Version.  Today I have been trying to enter additional buys over the past two months and the software is adding a decimal to my shares (no matter how I enter) calculating the correct price, but since it changes the share decimal, it calculates the wrong total and share balance.  I have tried it every possible way and no matter what...the software changes the share decimal incorrectly and gives me an incorrect entry.  Here is a screen shot:
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> Note...the system forced calculation is incorrect.  It was entered 10.0 shares at a cost of $915.  No matter which variable I leave off I get this result and if I enter all three I get the error that the math is wrong, which variable would I like to have calculated.  Errrrrr....please help!