Average Balance report borken WRT stocks/mutual funds

Robert Graham Merkel rgmerk@mira.net
Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:47:18 +1000


It appears that the average-balance report is fundamentally wrong-headed
about balance displays for stock and mutual fund accounts.  

Basically, when the average-balance report converts to the report currency,
a fixed price is calculated which is used for all intervals in the report.
This is OK for a foreign currency, but for shares is almost certainly
not what you want - you want to look up new prices each time you deal 
with a new transaction to show how the total value of your stock changes
over time.

We can probably get this fixed in time for the scheduled release of 1.6, 
but we won't have time to test it much.  However, if the problems with
gtkhtml and guppi printing don't get sorted out perhaps holding off is
going to be desirable after all.


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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk@mira.net

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