Fidelity rounds the share price to the penny in the report. So, your Purchase 2 shows a price of 111.25, while the real price was 111.245
On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM 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.
