> On Mar 25, 2020, at 11:21 AM, Dr. Timothy B. Jones <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Greetings:
>
> On 12/13 I entered a stock trade on a new stock added to the database without
> incident. On 12/31 I upgraded to Version 3.8....Windows Version. Today I
> have been trying to enter additional buys over the past two months and the
> software is adding a decimal to my shares (no matter how I enter) calculating
> the correct price, but since it changes the share decimal, it calculates the
> wrong total and share balance. I have tried it every possible way and no
> matter what...the software changes the share decimal incorrectly and gives me
> an incorrect entry. Here is a screen shot:
> <image1.jpeg>Note...the system forced calculation is incorrect. It was
> entered 10.0 shares at a cost of $915. No matter which variable I leave off
> I get this result and if I enter all three I get the error that the math is
> wrong, which variable would I like to have calculated. Errrrrr....please
> help!
Sounds like you have automatic decimal turned on in Preferences>General. If you
have the default 2 places then 100 turns into 1.00.
Regards,
John Ralls
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