[GNC] Cannot alter Trading value

[john]

To change the price in a bank register, right-click the stock split and select "Edit Exchange Rate" from the pop-up menu. In the exchange rate section of the resulting transfer dialog select the "amount" radio button and enter the number of shares to let GnuCash calculate the price. Remember that doing it that way avoids rounding issues that can arise when you enter the price and have GnuCash calculate the amount.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jul 18, 2023, at 08:49, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Fred,
> 
> Are you starting from the security account when you try to edit the price?
> 
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 10:42 AM Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 7:52 AM Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> If you changed the dollar amount, you would need to change either the
>>> number of shares and/or the price per share as well.  Otherwise the price
>>> per share * number of shares still equals the original dollar amount and
>>> the difference would go to the imbalance account.
>>> 
>> 
>> If I look at the transaction with its four splits, there is no place to
>> alter the price per share.
>> So, I used Tools: Price Database: to alter the price per share for the date
>> in question.
>> I then alter the dollar amount for the Trading split to the correct value
>> and remove Imbalance.
>> When I click on Enter at top of screen,
>> the dollars in Trading split reverts back to the old wrong  amount
>> and the price in the Price Database reverts back to the old wrong value.
>> 
>> If I delete both Trading splits and click Enter, the wrong Trading amount
>> comes back.
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