GNU Cash miscalculating Mutual Fund numbers in calculations
Robert C. Ramsdell III
rcriii at ramsdells.net
Tue Mar 8 07:58:01 EST 2005
First thing to check, in the sub-accounts, are the correct number of
shares shown for each purchase/sale?
In my account view, the balance shown for my mutual fund (or stock) sub-
accounts is the total number of shares (_not_ the value). Only in the
parent account is the total _value_ of all shares shown.
I believe that the total value shown for the parent account is based on
the latest price input for each stock (commodity, fund, etc).
Robert Ramsdell
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:21 -0500, Jason Ahrens wrote:
> I've come across what seems to be a real weird GNUCash issue. I can't seem to
> find anything wrong in my work...
>
> Following the suggestion in
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2005-January/012513.html for
> dealing with Canadian Mutual Funds and RRSPs, I was going through when I
> noticed the numbers stopped making sense.
>
> Upon investigation, I see that my initial data loads for the mutual funds from
> my Equity:Starting Balances account are all showing 0, however if investigate
> the individual accounts under my RRSP branch, they all show buys for the
> proper amount. I am not sure if this is expected behaviour, but is not where
> the main problem lies.
>
> Really troubling is that, though the three funds in question show buys for the
> proper amount, GNUCash does not calculate the value correctly when it shows
> it to me on the top level RRSP (and higher) account. I checked the price in
> Price Editor to make sure they were all right, and they are. The value that
> is missing is not the value of any single account, so it is not that GNUCash
> is forgetting to add one of the Mutual Funds to the RRSP branch calculation
> (a problem I had earlier tonight, shortly before GNUCash crashed hard because
> of a Guile segfault).
>
> I'm using GNUCash 1.8.10.
>
> The relevant account branches are:
> Assets (Asset CAD)
> RRSP (Asset CAD)
> Aim (Asset CAD)
> Fund 1 (Mutual Fund)
> Fund 2 (Mutual Fund)
> Fund 3 (Mutual Fund)
> Equity
> Starting Balances (Equity CAD)
>
> Each Mutual Fund has it's own Comodity defined in the Comodity editor. Each
> comodity has the price set in the Price Editor. The number calculated on the
> Aim line does not match the value of the three accounts. And, again, the
> Starting Balances account shows no increase or decrease for these three
> accounts.
>
> I tried creating a totally new file putting only the above structure in it,
> along with the Price and Comodity settings. Again, the numbers did not add up
> correctly, though they did add to a different number than what was in the
> original file.
>
> Is there anything I should look for that I might have done wrong? I've tried
> deleting and recreating the accounts, checked and rechecked the Price Editor,
> and all the numbers that I entered and everything is fine.
>
> I saved the sample file where things were not working right, if anyone wants
> to have a look at it. Have I hit some bug in 1.8.10, or is there another
> answer?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jason
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