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Re: Closing out fractional balances



On 14/08/2013 17:32, John Locke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Trying to clean up the books, and I have some invoices that are not 
> closed even though they have been paid. The reason appears to be that 
> there was a sales tax applied that resulted in amounts that are 
> fractions of a cent. But when you receive cash, it always rounds to the 
> penny.
>
> Thus the transactions remain open, because they are very slightly out of 
> balance.
>
> I tried receiving these again into an adjustments account, but it just 
> subtracted $0.01 from the open amount, giving the invoice a negative 
> balance.
>
> How should we resolve these?
>
> This is an issue with 1.3.x, but I'm seeing more transactions open like 
> this in 1.4...
>
It's been an issue for ages. I've got transactions that I can't close
out for the same reason. I've never found a way of sorting it out.

Nigel