Price Source for Mutual Fund and Stock

Yogesh Agrawal agrawaly at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 16:27:33 EDT 2008


Hi,
Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> wrote:

> On 24 March 2008 at 10:39, Derek Atkins said:
>
> > 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.
>
> I've now done some more playing around, inputting transactions that
> (appear to) match what the OP's screenshots show, apart from the names of
> the accounts and commodities.
>
> I get the correct result: 32347.53. The fact that other splits are for
> other commodities really shouldn't matter, since they have cash values
> that don't change.
>
> The only other explanation I can think of is that some other transactions
> exist, for the same commodity, with matching but opposite-signed share
> quantities and with different price-per-share.


I don't understand this part, where will some other transactions  can
exist,  I had two
transaction in that security account register, that I have posted in the
screenshot,
also, if you can guide me where to can I find different price-per-share can
be listed.

Thanks,
Yogesh

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