[Kmymoney] Automatically calculating the price

[David Houlden]

On Friday 04 January 2013 19:24:06 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

The total amount needs to be entered in the Price field and the number of 
shares in the Shares field. When you enter the transaction you will then see in 
the ledger that the price per share has been calculated.

David.