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.
