So there's no way to have the price reflect accurately in the price column for this scenario? (I already have set 1/1000).
On Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 at 8:56 AM, Murugan Mariappan <m.muruganan...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Check the fraction traded field in your security and adjust it to 1/1000. > Ensure your account uses the commodity value under the smallest fraction > field. Enter the debit value as $1.04; the system will calculate the price as > $130 due to rounding. Your bank should update correctly with the $1.04. > > Saludos Cordiales > > Murugan > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > From: gnucash-user > <gnucash-user-bounces+m.muruganandam=hotmail....@gnucash.org> on behalf of > G.W. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Sent: 12 March 2025 08:50 > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Subject: [GNC] Stock transaction: how to record "buy amount" being more or > less than product of "shares * price"? > > 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://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.gnucash.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fgnucash-user&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cd60dad1a0e5c4024200a08dd615c406f%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638773771054183031%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=KEw%2F7g2TZ3eT6rmCYLNRh1DpL1uCX7MyNBbHkoyXXM0%3D&reserved=0](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.
