[Kmymoney] Automatically calculating the price

[Niranjan Rao]

On 01/03/2013 01:38 PM, David Houlden wrote:
> 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.
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Unfortunately this did not work. I did set the option as indicated - on 
both the accounts settings and on the funds. When I try to enter the 
reinvest dividends transaction, total field is read only.  Am I doing 
something stupid?

Regards,

Niranjan