custom separate trading accounts

gnucash.133518b at telus.net gnucash.133518b at telus.net
Sun May 25 03:14:03 EDT 2014


On 2014-05-24 11:28 PM, Mike Alexander wrote:
> --On May 24, 2014 11:17:40 PM -0700 gnucash.133518b at telus.net wrote:
>> And do you agree that the output in question is wrong? I'm not
>> crossing time zones to get that report, so I don't understand why
>> it's displaying the wrong Price, although I now understand why you
>> weren't seeing the same output.
>
> Define "wrong".  It picks a price from the price DB that is close to the
> date of the report.  Both the report date and the times stamps in the
> price DB are precise times, not just a date.  That means that the price
> picked depends on the time within the day for both the recorded price
> and the report, as well as the algorithm for comparing them (which is
> not simple).

I would define "wrong" to be any Advanced Portfolio report in which the 
displayed Value does not equal the displayed number of Shares multiplied 
by the displayed Price. That is precisely what I am seeing (1000 <> 100 
* 11).

Carl



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