Hi David, At the end I was able to get properly the price by skipping it and letting to GnuCash to calculate it as you suggested. However, I think that this might be a kind of bug, because if I insert the price in decimal format, it shouldn't be modified and the total amount should be calculated accordingly.
Regarding the fractional format of prices, one more issue. Apart from being more difficult to read, when transactions are exported to CSV, the fractional format is maintained (i.e. "123 + 3/45") and if the CSV is opened with calc/excel we need to modify all the prices to be considered numbers not strings (i.e. insert "=123 + 3/45"). Thanks for your suggestions!! El sáb., 15 sept. 2018 a las 16:26, David Carlson (< david.carlson....@gmail.com>) escribió: > As I stated in my reply, enter the number of shares and total amount, > Skip the price, let GnuCash take care of that. > > David C > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 9:21 AM Christian Pinedo Zamalloa < > chr.pin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> I also agree with you that the fractional format is more difficult to >> read than decimal and I also hope to return to decimal format or at least >> to be able to choose between decimal or fractional format. >> >> Regarding my problem with price, I insert the number of shares, the >> prices (in decimal format) and press enter. The decimal formal is converted >> to fractional format, but fractional number is not the same that I inserted >> before. :-( >> >> Any idea? >> >> -- >> Christian Pinedo Zamalloa (zako) >> Sent from my mobile device, please excuse brevity or typos >> >> El sáb., 15 sept. 2018 14:49, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> >> escribió: >> >>> Christian Pinedo Zamalloa >>> >>> You have discovered that it is impossible to have all three values >>> shares, price and total exactly as reported by your broker because he >>> usually has to round off one of the numbers. The solution is to let >>> GnuCash set the price after you enter the number of shares and the total >>> amount. Actually, GnuCash is closer to being correct than your broker is. >>> >>> You have also discovered that in release 3.3 GnuCash shows the number of >>> shares in fractional format, which has the technical advantage of being >>> very accurate, if very hard to read. I believe that in the future GnuCash >>> may be changed back to show the number of shares in decimal format to be >>> easier to read, if less accurate. >>> >>> David C >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 4:16 AM Christian Pinedo Zamalloa < >>> chr.pin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I have problems to set the correct price of a share that I am selling. >>>> >>>> I try to put the value "128,181208053691" which is automatically >>>> converted >>>> by GnuCash when i push enter key to "128 + 64/377" whose real value is >>>> "128,169761". Furthermore, I checked if I insert value "1", it is >>>> automatically converted by GnuCash to value "1+3/377" (1,007958). >>>> >>>> I don't know how to solve this mesh. Am I doing something wrong? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> zako >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> gnucash-user mailing list >>>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >>>> ----- >>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>>> >>> -- Christian Pinedo Zamalloa (zako) PGP keyID: 0xdb577d4ee6ffbd55 PGP Fgprt: A895 7C11 84F6 30B4 4938 32A4 9306 DFD0 CDE4 B542 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
