[Kmymoney-devel] Sorry to bother with maybe a silly question but ...

[pjp13 at free.fr]

Thank you so much.
It is the second time you solve, at ligth speed, my problem (first was about online update quote). I would never have had this service with MS.
Once I have finished migration and tests, I promise to make a donation to the organization of geniuses who develop KMM .
Thank you again
P. Thévenard

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De: "Allan" <agander93 at gmail.com>
À: kmymoney-devel at kde.org, pjp13 at free.fr
Envoyé: Vendredi 25 Juillet 2014 12:30:16
Objet: Re: [Kmymoney-devel] Sorry to bother with maybe a silly question but ...

On 25/07/14 09:59, pjp13 at free.fr wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have nearly completed the (long & tedious) process of migrating my accounts from MSMoney to KMyMoney (4.6.4 Windows). So far I have been really impressed by the professional design of KMyMymoney which I find in many respects easier (more logical) to use than MSMoney. However I am now stucked on a trivial problem. I have searched the user manual (again a top quality document) and found exactly the answer to my question on page 71 § 11.5.4 :
>
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> Shares, Price & Total Amount
> For buy, sell, and cash dividend transactions, the number of shares, the price per share, and the total amount of the transaction must be established. You can enter any two of these, and KMyMoney will calculate the third. It's usually best to enter just the total amount and the number of shares, because these are the known facts of the transaction. The price per share can be calculated from these.
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> except that my KMyMoney (4.6.4 running on windows XP SP3, with KDE 4.10.5) doesn't seem to behave this way. That is I can only enter the number of shares and the price per share and KMyMoney calculates the total amount (no input box available for total amount, cf. attached capture). This is not convenient as the manual witfully points out : "It's usually best to enter just the total amount and the number of shares, because these are the known facts of the transaction". It is practically impossible by trial an error to find the correct price per share that gives the exact total amount stated on my bank account.
>
> I deeply hope that my question has a solution for KMyMoney seems otherwise such a nice piece of software (providing online price quote which MSMoney no longer does).
>
> Thank you in advance for your help in this matter
>
> Best Regards.
>
> Pascal Thévenard
> Marseille - France
>
>
No, it's not a silly question, and there is a simple answer.

If you open the investment/stock for editing, at the foot of the 
Investment Details window, open the Price entry drop-down and select 
'Total for all shares'.  When you create your transaction, in 'Price', 
enter the total amount, and enter the quantity.  The price will be 
calculated for you.

Allan