In all this you never state what version of GnuCash you are using. However, I did test this with 1.8-CVS and the problem is still there. Most likely the problem is that the rate calculations are limited to 6 decimal spaces, causing rounding to occur..
So, yes, please file a bug report. -derek Daniel Hannum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Somebody let me know if I should file a bug. Gnucash appear to be > doing its math wrong when you transfer money from a normal asset > account (USD) to a stock asset account (with some other commodity) > > 1. Make a new commodity > 2. Make a new stock account that uses that commodity > 3. Transfer money from any USD asset account to that stock account > 4. Enter 6.50 as the amount > 5. Set the accounts appropriate. The currency transfer part of the > dialog will enable itself > 6. Enter 0.644 as the 'to-amount' > 7. Click back in the amount field and Gnucash will compute the price > 8. Gnuash says that "1 foo = 10.092854 USD" > 9. My calculator, however, says that the price should be 10.093168 > > That was a real world example. You might ask why I care about tenths > of a cent. Here is a better contrived one that is obvious > Enter 1746.08 as the amount > Enter 56 as the 'to-amount' > The price should be *exactly* 31.18, but Gnucash says 31.181790 > > If hit Ok, and then try to make another transfer of 31.18 (1 > share). Gnucash tries to help and puts "0.9999" in the to-amount box > for me. So then I have to go in and fix it. > > All of the stock accounts in question track commodities to 1/10000, > which should be more than enough precision. > > Thanks > > dan > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
