Fred:
On 2026-02-28 11:52, Fred Tydeman wrote:
I am running GnuCash 5.12 on Fedora Linux 41
I am importing stock transactions from an old Quicken.
Many of those transactions have a small commission
(due to rounding error in price).
Those transactions end up in GnuCash with 5 splits:
stock
cash
commission
trading (stock)
trading (cash)
I try to remove the commission split by deleting
commission
trading (stock)
trading (cash)
When I click on Enter, those three splits reappear.
If I change the dollar amount in the trading (cash) split,
it reverts back to the previous value when I press Enter.
What is the correct way to remove the commission split?
I can't see what you are seeing, and I don't enter many stock
transactions, so the best I can do is guess.
I suspect that the trading (stock) and trading (cash) splits are to
trading accounts. GnuCash enters them to make the sum of all stock
splits in the transaction, and of all cash splits in the transaction,
sum to zero.
If the non-Trading splits ever sum to something other than zero, GnuCash
will add a corresponding Trading split. Thus deleting them does no good.
You must instead ensure that the other splits sum to zero.
GnuCash does not store the cash amount of a stock split. It just stores
the number of shares, and the price. It calculates the cash amount by
multiplying these two numbers. The number of shares in the transaction
is an external fact from the brokerage statement. So is the cash value
which the brokerage says you have. Thus you have to use those exact
numbers. However, the price is under your control.
To drive the Trading split to zero, use the Transfer Funds dialogue, and
the "To Amount" field. This forces GnuCash to set the price to that
exact fraction which, when multiplied by the number of shares, gives you
the cash amount you want. This might well mean that the price you see
in GnuCash is different than the price reported by the brokerage. That
is fine.
Does that help? Best regards,
—Jim DeLaHunt
P.S. useful information on Trading Accounts
<https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Trading_Accounts>.
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