formatting/precision when generating transactions

[Zurab Sajaia]

Hi all,

I've been just living with this annoyance for a while but perhaps there is a solution I'm missing?

When I import transactions for stock purchases where I usually have a round cash value, say 100 usd, and units of stock are fractional, i.e.

2025-07-07 * "buy ABC"

  assets:cash   -160 USD

  assets:abs  1.2019 ABS { 133.12 USD}

And this transaction doesn't balance because there is a rounding error. What I end up doing (the annoying part from above) is to add zeros to the cash amount - 160.00 USD and then the error disappears.

Is there a way better/right way to deal with such issues?

Thanks!

Zurab

[Timothy Jesionowski]

That's a normal consequence of how beancount tracks precision. Putting an integer amount of dollars implies exact precision, while putting N decimal zeros says the transaction should balance to N decimal places in that currency.

Sincerely,

Timothy Jesionowski

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