Hi,
Using 3.0.0-20100623 I'm confused about the proper way to deal with
rounding differences that occur due to the decimal precision provided
by a brokerage balance sheet.
This example:
$ cat test.dat
2010/01/01 Random Account
Assets:Random:Account $1.00
Equity:Opening Balances
2010/01/01 Brokerage
Assets:Brokerage:Personal 8490.490 A @ $1.00
Assets:Brokerage:Personal 1998.084 B @
$13.07
Assets:Brokerage:Personal 408.384 C @
$113.98
Assets:Brokerage:Personal 524.454 D @
$31.06
Assets:Brokerage:Personal 389.915 E @
$75.86
Equity:Opening Balances
2010/02/01 Brokerage
Assets:Brokerage:Personal 3.270 C @
$114.67
Assets:Brokerage:Personal 4.895 E @
$76.61
Assets:Brokerage:Personal 11.992 D @
$31.27
Assets:Brokerage:Personal 28.824 B @
$13.01
Assets:Brokerage:Personal -1,500.000 A @
$1.00
Generates a balance error warning:
$ ledger -f test.dat balance assets
While parsing file "test.dat", line 18:
While balancing transaction from "test.dat", lines 13-18:
> 2010/02/01 Brokerage
> Assets:Brokerage:Personal 3.270 C @ $114.67
> Assets:Brokerage:Personal 4.895 E @ $76.61
> Assets:Brokerage:Personal 11.992 D @ $31.27
> Assets:Brokerage:Personal 28.824 B @ $13.01
> Assets:Brokerage:Personal -1,500.000 A @ $1.00
Unbalanced remainder is:
$-0.03
Amount to balance against:
$1499.96693
Error: Transaction does not balance
Is there something I should be doing to adjust the rounding?
Is there a way to specify "-1,500.00 A @ $fill.in.the.amount"
where ledger fills in the decimal points it needs?
An oddity I'll note is that if I remove the first transaction of the
three listed ("Random Account"), the error goes away.
Jim
