Hmm. That seems to work, but it certainly isn't what I want. The exchange rate is now shown as "5 + 61331/98755" which is less than helpful - it most certainly is not how real world exchange rates are quoted, and it makes comparison almost impossible!
Why does the display option mangle the data? That isn't very clever. I think I'll just stick in a fudge factor as a separate split to correct the total though it's a long way from ideal. Thanks very much for the answer, though. I can stop chasing moonbeams now ;-) On 19/02/2020 14:26, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Check that Preferences > General > Numbers > 'Force Prices to display as decimal s' is *unchecked*. This should result in fractions being shown rather than being rounded or truncat ed. You may need to have Trading Accounts turned on, but I could be mistaken. The total decimals used I think has something to do with the setting of the invo lved currencies. Both BRL and GBP are set to 1/100 as the lowest fractional piece of currency. Th us an exchange between them will preserve 4 decimal places. (1/100 * 1/100 = 1/1 0000) Unfortunately, I don’t see a way to edit this field as it is greyed out in the S ecurity Editor. Regards, Adrien On Feb 19, 2020 w8d50, at 5:31 AM, Paul Abraham [1]<p...@acasa.org.uk> wrote: I have real world transaction that involves a transfer from a GBP to a BRL account but cannot get it to accept either the correct value in BRL or the actual exchange rate. It insists on truncating the rate to 3 decimal places (or 4 sig figs?) and adjusting the amount to match, even though the "Transfer Funds" window suggests it's working to 6 DPs - . How do I fix this? Details are: OS: 4.19.102-1-MANJARO Gnucash version: Version: 3.8 (Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29)) - the latest in the Manjaro repository. Amount in GBP: 1975.10 Amount in BRL: 11102.12 Exchange Rate: 5.62104 Gnucash forces exchange rate to 5.621000 resulting in BRL value of 11,102.04 Thanks _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [2]gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: [3]https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see [4]https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ma iling_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. References 1. mailto:p...@acasa.org.uk 2. mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org 3. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user 4. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.