On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Justus Pendleton <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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.
>
It's actually Vanguard giving you 1.6 cents for free. Vanguard's rounding
issue is not uncommon, I have a special account used to absorb those
remaining balances.
>
> (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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