gnucash-user Digest, Vol 130, Issue 46

[Chris Good]

Hi Mike Alexander,

Great tip! Thanks for pointing this out, and also for improving the Advanced
Portfolio report.

Does anyone have a suggestion for what dates you should make sure you have
market prices for, when you buy an investment?
I recently bought a 2nd lot of shares for a particular stock and the
Advanced Portfolio report stopped showing a value for all the cost related
fields for that stock:
Basis, Realized Gain, Unrealized Gain, Total Gain & Total Return. It just
shows the currency symbol $ in these fields.

Changing the report option: Basis calculation method from Average to FIFO
fixed the problem, & I suppose that makes more sense anyway for calculating
Unrealized gain, but I'd like to know what dates I should have set up market
prices for anyway (if that is relevant ...)

I have manually added market prices for the exact dates I entered for both
buy transactions, but that did not help. Maybe there is a timezone issue
with the report.

Changing option 'Price source setting' doesn't seem to have any effect for
me.
Also changing 'Set preference for price list data' doesn't seem to have any
effect.

I'm using Win7, GnuCash 2.4.11 (I'll try out 2.6.1 when it comes out).

Regards,

Chris Good

Message: 11
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:28:06 -0500
From: Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu>
To: Richard Ullger <rullger at gmail.com>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Advanced Portfolio Report
Message-ID: <9F2CC867A707BC800EF6F9EB at bayswater.msalexander.com>
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What income is it not reporting?  Dividend income?  In order for it to 
be shown you must include a split tying the transaction to the stock 
account as described in 
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581191>.   Otherwise the 
report will never see it.  Is this the problem you're having?   If not 
please let me have an example of the problem.

I just checked again and both reinvested and non-reinvested dividend 
income is showing up in the Income column.  Reinvested dividends also 
affect the basis, as they should.
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