[moneydance] [Fwd: Re: Need more digits in number of shares]

[David Carlson]

David Carlson wrote:
> To William Calahan:
>
> I guess I keep too much stuff!  I found this in my personal archives:
>
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> Dave Carlson
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I guess attachments don't work.  Here is an inline copy copy of my 
response to Mr. Callahan:

 
 

> > ----- Original Message ---- 
> > From: Scott Kirkpatrick  
> >To: MoneyDance mailing list  
> > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 1:22:12 PM 
> > Subject: [moneydance] Need more digits in number of shares 
> >  
> > One of my retirement accounts, AIG-Valic, is giving me fits with  
> > tracking it.  When I get my statements, the number of shares goes out to  
> > 6 decimal places, just like the share price.  However, MD always takes  
> > the total amount of the transaction and divides it by the share price to  
> > get the number of shares then 'adjusts' the share price so there is no  
> > remainder.  So by the time I'm done entering a transaction (or  
> > downloading them), neither the number of shares or the share price  
> > matches what my statement says.  Which means I can never match my  
> > statement's share totals or values. 
> > 
> > Is this going to require a code change by Sean or is there something  
> > else I can do? 
> > 
>   
When you were creating your securities you could change "Max decimap places" field to to 6 (the default value is 4). If it easy enough I would suggest to recreate the security and re-import/re-enter the data. If it's not so easy (which is most likey the case :)) what you can do is export your data to "Moneydance XML" find your security in the resulting XML file (it shoud look something like 
... 
 <CURRENCY>
   <CURRID>14</CURRID>
   <CURRCODE>Security Code</CURRCODE>
   <NAME>Security Name</NAME>
   <RAWRATE>1</RAWRATE>
   <DECPLACES>4</DECPLACES>
   <PREFIX>$</PREFIX>
   <SUFFIX></SUFFIX>
   <TICKER></TICKER>... 
) 
and change <DECPLACES>4</DECPLACES> to <DECPLACES>6</DECPLACES>
Then open the modified file in moneydance and update security prices (most likely they will be   wrong)
If you need more details you can search the list - there should be several threads addressing the problem.

> > 
> > Scott Kirkpatrick 
>   
Hope this helps,
   Dmitry
 
 
 

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