[GNC] How to enter a specific lof for stock

[john]

What did you set for the stock's smallest fraction traded in the security editor? Do you have Automatic decimal point set in Preferences>Numbers, Date, Time? If so, what have you set for the number of decimal places?

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Apr 8, 2022, at 7:37 PM, Suseno Dermawan <dermawas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ok, there definitely something strange with how GNC auto calculate.
> after i force the correct price / shares & the total value. it
> automatically correct the shares qty.
> that is 1 way to fixed it. but i think there is a bug in the auto
> calculation. can this be reported as bugs ?
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 9:17 AM Suseno Dermawan <dermawas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> okay this is even more strange,
>> 
>> [image: image.png]
>> 
>> I forced the number, but it seems gnucash doesn't recognise 29.400 pcs of
>> stock, only recognised 294 lot of stock with price of 33.800, which i think
>> is strange. or is this the proper way to record ?
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 9:11 AM Suseno Dermawan <dermawas at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> How to properly entered a stock ?
>>> i purchase an odd  number of stock
>>> i.e. 294 Lof (1 lot = 100) with the price of 338 IDR with value
>>> of 9.937.200 IDR .
>>> 
>>> So i entered as such
>>> Shares = 29400,00
>>> Price = 338,00
>>> Value (Debit) = 0; i let GNC calculate auto
>>> screenshot as below:
>>> [image: Before enter & Auto calculate.PNG]
>>> 
>>> when i press enter in gnu cash it changes to
>>> Shares = 294
>>> Price=338,0000
>>> Value = 99.372,00
>>> 
>>> which is odd. and is there a rule how to enter the value in GNC ?
>>> can anyone help ?
>>> 
>>> some additional info:
>>> 
>>> the Fund security editor fraction is 1/1 or it should be 1 / 100 follow
>>> the lot of stock ?
>>> The account itself follow the fraction of the commodity values.
>>> 
>>> Thank you
>>> 
>> 
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