Question on advanced portfolio and buying shares directly from income

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:15:29PM -0700, FireFly wrote:
[...]
> 
> I just changed it around and had the money in coming into an asset
> account, before it was then used to buy the hours stock and that
> seemed to resolve the problem? So is buying shares directly from
> income frowned upon?

when I last hacked on that report, a couple of years ago, that was the
case -- a suspense account was required. In some ways this makes sense
as a lot of payroll purchases move through an intermediate brokerage
account, but I guess not always. Anyway, the code is pretty dumb about
it. So the short answer is yes, an intermediate account is needed to
make that report work properly. This is surely a bug in the report.

A
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