Recording Transactions Without Rounding Errors

 

Often there can be small rounding errors on your transaction summary statement, as provided by your fund company or broker.  Improperly recorded, this can lead to small differences between the share balances reported by Fund Manager and your statements.  To prevent rounding errors, record the Value and Shares fields in Fund Manager as displayed on your fund statement.  Then, press the Tab key to move the input focus to the Price field.  Fund Manager will automatically adjust the Price field to be consistent with the Value and Shares.  This method records the Value and Shares as displayed on your statement.  If there are rounding errors on your statement, the Price recorded by Fund Manager will be adjusted to the correct price (consistent with the Value and Shares).  Fund Manager always ensures that Value = Shares * Price.

 

You can move the input focus around on a dialog box by pressing the Tab key on your keyboard.  The order that the focus moves around on a dialog box is referred to as the "tab order".  The transaction dialogs in Fund Manager have their tab order set to facilitate this recording method.  The tab order in transaction dialogs moves from the Value, to the Shares, and then to the Price controls.

See Also

Buy or Sell Transaction Dialog

 


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