Reporting: weighted average price source

[Charles Day]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:58 AM, David G. Hamblen <dhamblen at roadrunner.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Charles Day wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:11 AM, David G. Hamblen <
>>> dhamblen at roadrunner.com <mailto:dhamblen at roadrunner.com>> wrote:
>>>
>> [snip]
>
>>
>>>    Now that r17292 enables me to test things, the "Average Cost" on
>>>    the balance sheet does what I think it should, except when a
>>>    position is closed out (as in Derek's initial example above).
>>>     With no current holdings in a stock,  I get blanks for that stock
>>>    and for the Total Assets, Liabilities, etc., just $ signs.  If I
>>>    unselect "Compute Unrealized Gains...", then the Liabilities and
>>>    Equity section print properly, but the Assets total remains blank.
>>>     Looks like a total somewhere is being skipped if there's a funny
>>>    entry.  I'll see what I can find.
>>>
>>>
>>> "With no current holdings in a stock,  I get blanks for that stock"
>>>
>>> Could you explain a bit more, because this sounds contradictory. If you
>>> have no current holdings of the stock, then why is there even a line for it
>>> on your report?
>>>
>>>  Because I accepted the defaults under Options|Accounts  (in the Balance
>> Sheet report).  If I manually unselect that stock, All is well.  Unselecting
>> "Include accounts with zero total balances" and "Omit zero balance figures"
>> on the Display tab doesn't make any difference.  The other three commodity
>> options ("Weighted average", "Nearest in Time", and "Most Recent") do what I
>> expected (i.e, the stock doesn't show, and the totals are printed).
>>
>
> Ah, I see... the line should be zero and isn't. Forgot my caffeine this
> morning. :p
>
> Obviously any account with a zero balance should be worth zero in any
> currency, so there is no need to even look at exchange rates on zero balance
> accounts. I will take a look at the code.
>

I believe I've fixed this now. This seemed to be a bug that was already
hanging around, and the new Average Cost price source just brought it to our
attention. Could you try again with r17293? If it works for you, then maybe
there are some Bugzilla bugs that this might resolve. :)


>
> -Charles
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>> Dave
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