Cannot enter correct stock transaction in GnuCash

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting Scott Simpson <simpson100 at gmail.com>:

> GnuCash 2.2.4
>
> I'm trying to enter a stock transaction in a stock account in GnuCash.
> The amount of the buy is $461.88 and the price is $122.02 (which comes
> out to approximately 3.7853 shares). Whenever I enter the price of
> $122.02 and the shares as 3.7852811 it shortens the shares to 3.7853
> and changes the price to $122.019 and make a new row with a tenth of a
> cent. How do I stop it from doing this? Thank you.

GnuCash considers the # shares and total value to be the primary
information.  The "price" is just a computed value.  However, the
software will attempt to compute it for you if you only enter #shares
and price.  But storage-wise it only stores the #shares and total-value.
If your number is off then I suggest you just enter the #shares and
total value and let it compute the price for you.

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-derek

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