[Kmymoney] Automatically calculating the price

[Allan]

On 04/01/13 19:24, Niranjan Rao wrote:
> 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.

> 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

> Did you try my suggestion?

> Allan

PS. I should add that I have the price entry option set to 'Price per 
share'.  I enter the quantity, and for price, I enter the 
value/quantity.  I get the correct total amount.  The price may have a 
slight variation,  but the other two parameters are the more important, 
I feel.

Allan