Lot Sales Calculation Errors

[David T.]

--- On Sun, 2/6/11, Mike C. <subscribe307 at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Mike C. <subscribe307 at verizon.net>
> Subject: Lot Sales Calculation Errors
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Sunday, February 6, 2011, 8:59 AM
> I have been using the "view lots" to
> calculate the FIFO gains/losses for
> investment sales and find that I can no longer expect the
> calculations
> to be valid.  I set up a dummy file to try to
> understand the problem and
> found that if a correction is made in a sale, then the lot
> calculations
> are invalid. 

Wow. Can you explain "invalid" in a little more detail? And what steps are you taking to create the problem? A step-by-step description of the steps you took is needed.

I was just looking at the View Lots/Scrub Lots feature as a real saving grace, since I was having such trouble understanding the whole calculate gains thing. If it's wrong, folks should definitely know!

I have noticed that once a lot is calculated, there seems to be no modifying it; perhaps this is related? I was not prepared to delete everything in the transaction history, but would if it became necessary. Bummer!

David
 This is the case even if you delete all
> the gain/loss
> transactions and the sale that was changed.  The only
> way to fix the
> problem is to delete all sales of that security and start
> over with all
> sales transactions.  Also at times when you open and
> close the view lots
> a new gain/loss transaction is added to the register for
> some unknown
> reason.  I haven't determined exactly what keystrokes
> causes this to
> happen.  I am using version 2.4 on Windows XP.
> I hope this can be fixed soon since calculation errors are
> the worst
> problem because you don't know when it is happening.
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