Scrub Lots

Gregory Gincley rollenwiese at fastmail.net
Sat Oct 11 18:37:35 EDT 2014


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I don't understand the behavior of this account function? Maybe
someone out there can help me out.

For me, if I scrub the lots of a mutual fund account in order to
obtain a capital gain/loss transaction as a result of a sale, all my
realized gains transactions are recalculated. I get many new 'realized
loss/gain' transactions associated with sale transactions where it has
previously been calculated? The new realized gain/loss transactions
mostly have different ammout values, but occasionally are the same.

I'm not sure why this is occuring? Whether it's an artifact of how my
data was entered, or a lack of understanding of how this function
should be used.

I receive a quarterly cash distribution from four IRA accounts where
there might be a capital gain/loass realized.

Everytime I enter these new transactions in the account ledger, I have to:

1) delete all the lots in the account
2) delete all the realized gain/loss transactions that were previously
generated by the 'scrub lots' function.
3) enter the new distribution transaction
4) once again 'scrub lots' in the account
5) associate the generated transactions with my existing realized
gains account tied to each mutual fund account


My transaction information in the ledger is not changing as quarters
come and go. What is causing these capital gain/loss amounts to be
regenerated with slightly different values everytime I scrub the account?

Thanks for any insight out there,

Gregory
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