Price Source for Mutual Fund and Stock

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Mar 24 10:39:59 EDT 2008


Hi,

"Yogesh Agrawal" <agrawaly at gmail.com> writes:

> I am using gnucash 2.2.4 for Windows on WinXPPro-SP2 too.
> I understand whether there is pricedb entries or not, you get the same
> result when you select the price source of  weighted average.
>
> I have some other fund as well and for them I get the total amount correct
>
> But I am having a problem in this particular fund, as both of these
> transaction are split transactions.

AHH!

Yeah, GnuCash's reports don't really deal well with converting
from one security to another.  I'm pretty sure many of them expect
you to go from one security to a currency, and then from the currency
to another security.

Are the funds denoted in INR?

> So the split transaction is like, selling one mutual fund and buying another
> one.
>
> So in first case 117.428 unit @ 53.98       = 6338.76
>
> I sold something for 6338.76, in which I have capital gain of 338.75
> and then I bought 117.428 unit @ 53.98
>
> in the second case 135.725 unit @ 191.628   = 26008.77
>
> I sold something for 26,008.77, in which I have a capital gain of 11,305.23
> and then I bought 135.725 unit @ 191.628.
>
> So which basically means instead of funding from bank, I am funding from
> the amount that I got while selling some other fund.
>
> Is it I am splitting it wrong, or there is some bug in weighted average
> calculation in the split transaction.

It's probably a problem in the weighted average computation when you
go from one security to another security.

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-derek

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