Lot Sales Calculation Errors

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Mar 22 09:20:31 EDT 2011


"Mike C." <subscribe307 at verizon.net> writes:

> Yes, I did rescrub the account and that not fix the problem.  I see that
> the bug report has been marked "enhancement" so I assume it will not be
> addressed with any priority.  For those of us that use the program for
> investments it is important that there is a way  to determine
> gains/losses when there are multiple buys and sales for a particular
> stock or mutual fund.  It seems to work great when there are no changes
> but when there has been a change in recording a sale in the past, the
> data is invalid and there is no easy way to determine this has happened.
> I realize that there are other details being worked by volunteers and
> you all have developed a great program used for a lot of different
> activities.  I just hope this issue can be addressed for those of us
> that track investments.
> Mike

Well, the other workaround is that when you change a sold commodity you
need to also delete the cap-gains transaction and re-scrub.  Does that
work?

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