On Friday, December 29, 2017 at 7:11:15 AM UTC+7, Joel Shprentz wrote:
>
> Thanks, Martin, for your quick response. I experimented with some
> alternative transaction entries.
>
> *Specify the per-share price.*
>
> 2017-12-27 * "Buy retirement fund shares"
> Assets:Vanguard 4.039 VFIAX {247.59 USD}
> Assets:Checking -1000.00 USD
>
> Beancount rejects this, logging:
>
> /home/joel/projects/accounting/vanguard.bean:15: Transaction does not
> balance: (0.01601 USD)
>
FWIW, beancount is correct here. Vanguard has stolen 1.6 cents from you.
This happens on many (most? all?) Vanguard transactions. I haven't had it
happen with any other service I use. I write it off to a quirk of how
Vanguard handles rounding and attribute the lost money to an
Equity:VanguardRounding account I created.
(I have a feeling that Vanguard's rounding has been mentioned before either
on this forum or somewhere in the beancount documentation.)
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