Advance Portfolio Basis for funds not working

FireFly fireflys_98 at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 13 18:04:24 EST 2013


Figured mine out, It had been so long since I'd played with the Advanced Portfolio that I'd forgotten to change Basis to FIFO, change to that from Average fixed my issue (thanks David for the reminder).
 
- James Duerr


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 From: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
To: David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net>; "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: Advance Portfolio Basis for funds not working
 
I've had the same issue as well, with a fund that I have held for a very long time. David--is there any way to determine what information might be missing from the transactions that would mess up the Basis calculation? I'd love to figure out how to get this minor point addressed, but I don't see how I would even tell which transactions lacked a proximate price.

Another question is: how would a mere mortal user add the price for a commodity in the past? As far as I can tell, the only way to add historical prices is to use the python-bindings activated version of Gnucash along with the python scripts on the web for this purpose--but that would be precluded for people unwilling/unable to compile from source. Or else, the user must hack the XML and manually insert dates? 

David




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From: David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: Advance Portfolio Basis for funds not working

On 1/13/2013 10:54 AM, FireFly wrote:
> I'm having the same issue, I've managed to figure mine down to some "sale" transactions that I had, if I remove all the sale transactions then my basis shows up.
>
> The funny part is that some accounts I have sales in are just fine, no issues at all, others have this problem, so I'm really not sure what's causing it.
>  
> - James Duerr
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> E-mail: FireFlys_98 at yahoo.com
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> Discover a lost art - play Marbles. May 2004
> www.marillion.com
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> ________________________________
>  From: Stephen Myers <stevem at scn.org>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
> Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2013 11:06 AM
> Subject: Advance Portfolio Basis for funds not working
>  
> On my advanced portfolio page the Basis field is blank for some of my
> mutual funds.  I know there was an issue in 2.2 that got fixed, but I seem
> to have an issue still.  Any idea what I should look for?  Something in my
> configuration? Data?  Places to look to understand the problem?
>
>
> Thanks.
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I have also seen this.  At one point I thought that I could make some of
the fields repopulate themselves by carefully making sure that there are
prices in the file for those securities on the dates in question and
that "nearest in time" option is selected in the report options for
security valuation.  However, that was some time ago and I have not had
time to pursue that further.  You might try playing with that.  Since
there are three choices for basis calculation method, try playing with
those. If there are multiple purchases and/or sales, lot identification
may be a factor.
Errors in capital gain entries and failure to associate dividends with
their respective securities properly will also affect this report. Right
now I am working on correcting capital gains in old sales in my data file.
I also have not figured out how to get money in, brokerage fees, total
return or rate of return to populate correctly.

David C

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