[GNC] Stock transaction: how to record "buy amount" being more or less than product of "shares * price"?

[Fred Tydeman]

Fidelity rounds the share price to the penny in the report.
So, your Purchase 2 shows a price of 111.25, while the real price was
111.245


On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM G.W. via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> My investment firm (Fidelity) allows the buying of fractional shares. I
> purchased some shares of stock with the following details:
>
> Purchase-1: shares: 0.008 | price per share: $124.42 | total amount I paid
> to get the 0.008 shares = $1.04
>
> Purchase-2: shares: 10 shares | price per share: $111.25 | total amount I
> paid to get the 10 shares = $1,112.45
>
> As you can compute by doing the math, the total amount paid does NOT equal
> shares*price. Purchase-1 should have only costed $1 and Purchase-2 should
> have costed $1,112.50.
>
> How do I account for this in Gnucash because it will not let me input the
> actual money I spent on the shares. Is there a way to override Gnucash's
> automatic calculation?
>
> (I phoned Fidelity and they explained this discrepancy is normal, a result
> of fractional share buys).
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