Question on advanced portfolio and buying shares directly from income

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:46:47AM -0700, FireFly wrote:
> > From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew at swclan.homelinux.org>
> > Subject: Re: Question on advanced portfolio and buying shares directly from income
> > To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 7:59 AM
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:15:29PM
> > -0700, FireFly wrote:
> > [...]
> > > 
> > > I just changed it around and had the money in coming
> > into an asset
> > > account, before it was then used to buy the hours
> > stock and that
> > > seemed to resolve the problem? So is buying shares
> > directly from
> > > income frowned upon?
> > 
> > when I last hacked on that report, a couple of years ago,
> > that was the
> > case -- a suspense account was required. 
[...]
> Thanks for the response, that does help, and for my "fake" PTO Fund transactions I now have them going through a "cash" account and all is fine and good.
> 
> But I was reading and thinking, and entering transactions this
> morning and realized I do pretty much all my dividend transactions
> straight from Income too, I presume those will cause issues too?
> (The Advanced Portfolio always had some odd numbers on it, but I'd
> not worried about it to much since it was just for my tracking).
> 
> I'll try changing all the dividends over to the cash account (and
> adding a corresponding transaction to populate the cash account) and
> see if my odd numbers go away (it's mostly having realized gain from
> accounts I've never had money coming out of that always seemed odd).

yup. that's probably the problem. sorry.

A
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