[Kmymoney] Automatically calculating the price

[David Houlden]

On Thursday 03 January 2013 20:07:21 Niranjan Rao wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> For brokerage accounts, the information I get is dividend and number of
> shares purchased for mutual funds. When I try to enter the entry,
> KMyMoney forces me to calculate the price. While this task is easier, I
> have noticed that its introducing rounding errors.
> 
> I remember from my Microsoft Money usage, it used to allow entering any
> two fields and used to calculate third field based on the fields I fill.
> Can KMyMoney do something similar? If it calculates the price, then I
> won't have rounding errors as I can say I have X number of shares and
> total is Y.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Niranjan

On the Accounts screen, edit the mutual fund and set the price entry option to 
Total For All Shares. Then, when you enter a transaction just enter the total 
number of shares and the total price paid. KMyMoney will calculate the price 
for you and this will avoid any rounding errors.

Regards,
David.