Leave the price blank, enter the number of dollars total and the number of shares. Let gnucash calculate the price per share (since it’s calculating your actual net price). -- Dave Reiser dbrei...@icloud.com
> On Mar 12, 2025, at 10:44, G.W. <grgw...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > Okay. So can you kindly advise how you would handle this situation in a way > that maintains a record of the actual pricing and results in everything being > balanced financially? e.g., would you use a split, just write in description > some details? > > I am also running in problems such as selling -.005 shares for $115 and > gnucash keeps altering the price to $116. How would you account for this? > > On Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 at 10:36 AM, David Reiser > <dbrei...@icloud.com> wrote: >> In terms of math, you only have 2 degrees of freedom, and you’re trying to >> specify 3 parameters independently. Not permissible. >> >> You paid a certain number of dollars and cents for a specific number of >> shares. The price per share that you actually paid is $/shares acquired (or >> sold). The broker can tell you anything they want as far as price per share, >> but in reality the price per share you actually paid was the dollars you >> paid divided by the shares transferred. There are both fees and round-off >> events associated with stock transactions. The mismatch between stated >> prices and real prices are magnified for fractional share transactions. >> -- >> Dave Reiser >> dbrei...@icloud.com >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Mar 12, 2025, at 10:25, G.W. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Can you advise if I have a setting error? >>> >>> For example, >>> I sell -0.005 shares at $115 for $0.58 and this keeps resulting in price >>> $116 with sell amount of $0.58 (actual is price $115 and sell amount >>> precisely come to $0.575). Why isn't gnucash keeping the price of $115 and >>> just rounding up the amount of $0.575? >>> >>> In the Security Editor I have set Fraction Traded 1/1000 >>> In the account editor I have "Smallest Fraction" set to 1/1000 >>> >>> Is there some setting I'm missing? Why can't gnucash get the example above >>> correct? >>> >>> On Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 at 10:11 AM, Murugan Mariappan >>> <m.muruganan...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> If you are particular about the price to be the same then you can do split >>>> of the .04 and pass it to a "rounding off" expenses account >>>> >>>> Saludos Cordiales >>>> >>>> Murugan >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> From: G.W. <grgw...@protonmail.com> >>>> Sent: 12 March 2025 10:14 >>>> To: Murugan Mariappan <m.muruganan...@hotmail.com> >>>> Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> >>>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Stock transaction: how to record "buy amount" being >>>> more or less than product of "shares * price"? >>>> >>>> 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. >> > _______________________________________________ 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. 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