Advanced Portfolio Report And Dividends

[Jesse C]

Changing the Basis has no effect on the dividend error, at least in my
version of 2.4.4.  Over the weekend I'm going to download and build the
latest 2.2.x version so I can document the change.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:34 PM, FireFly <fireflys_98 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- On *Tue, 3/22/11, Jesse C <crimson.corelio at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> That is not the issue.  All of my purchases are correctly routed through
> cash accounts before being transfered into the equity accounts.  In
> addition, I have dividends setup so that they transfer from an income
> account to a cash account.  In addition, they are tagged as being part of
> the equity account by placing a value in the price column, but nothing in
> Shares or Buy/Sell.  In all the 2.2.x versions, this caused the dividends to
> be correctly shown in the advanced portfolio report.  It now appears that
> those gains are showing up as negative (!??!) income in the report.  That's
> clearly not correct.
>
> So, I actually played with it a little last night (2.4.2 which is what
> Ubuntu 11.04 is going to get) and seemed to have the same issue, after a
> little playing it seemed (in my case) to be because in the options "Basis
> Calculation Method" was set to Average (bearing in mind I have no clue what
> Basis Calculation Method actually means), if I change it to FIFO then they
> come out as I expect them to, in my case it APPEARS like maybe it's when I
> have Dividends and actual transactions on the same day.
>
> Not sure if that helps? The other thing I personally have tried is deleting
> out transactions (in the XML version, not in the database version, so I can
> undo my changes) to see if I can remove whatever transactions are causing
> the issue (and then see what caused it).
>
> Thanks
>
> James (again, still not an accountant, or played one on TV)
>
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