How do I ignore it when I have to account for the price discrepancy? For example, if $1.04 comes out of my bank account to buy shares, and only $1.00 shows up in the stock account, there is a $0.04 imbalance.
On Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 at 8:10 AM, sunfis...@yahoo.com <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Short answer: ignore the price recorded in GnuCash. It is calculated from the > shares and amount. > > David T. > > On Mar 12, 2025, 2:51 PM, at 2:51 PM, "G.W. via gnucash-user" > gnucash-user@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). > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
