Change to the Advanced Portfolio report

[Mike Alexander]

--On February 22, 2015 at 11:17:59 AM +1100 Chris Good 
<chris.good at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> In your original email about your latest mod, you said:
>
> 	I made another change to the Advanced Portfolio report which may
> 	simplify the recording of dividend and interest payments.
>
> Can you please explain what interest payments you mean?
> Is this for inclusion in Income on Advanced Portfolio Rpt?

I thought I explained it in that message:

> This change causes the report to find income (and expense)
> transactions that are in the parent account of the security account
> being reported on.  This is done by looking in the parent account for
> transactions that have exactly two splits (not counting trading
> account splits) where the other split is to an income or expense
> account with the same name as the security's account.
>
> For example given an account structure like
>
>   Assets (type ASSET)
>     Broker (type ASSET)
>       Widget Stock (type STOCK)
>   Income (type INCOME)
>     Dividends (type INCOME)
>       Widget Stock (type INCOME)
>
> If you are producing a report on "Assets:Broker:Widget Stock" a
> transaction that debits the Assets:Broker account and credits the
> "Income:Dividends:Widget Stock" account will count as income in the
> report even though it doesn't have a split in the account being
> reported on.
>
> This only works if the parent account ("Assets:Broker" in this case)
> is a Bank or Asset account and the Income/Expense account has the
> same name as the security account.  It won't double count
> transactions that have the dummy split since they won't be two split
> transactions.
>

What part of this is unclear?  It's for the Advanced Portfolio report, 
this discussion has nothing to do with the any income or profit and 
loss report.

            Mike