Average Balance report borken WRT stocks/mutual funds

[Dave Peticolas]

On 04 Jun 2001 15:47:18 +1000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> 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.

I don't think that printing problems are serious enough
to delay release, especially since it may be out of our
control.

dave