GNU Cash miscalculating Mutual Fund numbers in calculations

[Mark Johnson]

When you enter a price in the Price Editor, what is the default 
currency?  Is it CAD?  If not, this could cause trouble.  The Price 
Editor shows the quote's currency in the second column.  Check that all 
are CAD.

You should also try Edit->Preferences.  Choose International on the left 
and make sure your default currencies are CAD.

I'd also suggest opening your sample file in a text editor and looking 
for any instances of USD to double-check that they make sense.

Mark

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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