Advanced Portfolio Income (maybe Brokerage Fees too) incorrect in switch and multiple investments transactions

[Alberto D]

Hi Chris,

please note that I encountered these situations in the real life (I think
I'm not so creative).
Split transactions respect real transactions, while separate transactions
using Dummy Bank is a trick.
Split and separate transactions give the same values on the account
register, but Advanced Investment report gives correct results just with
separate transactions.
So, I think, the right way to proceed should be to make Advanced Investment
report working fine with split (real) transactions too.
Modify manuals is a trick again.
This is my opinion.

Thanks, best regards
Alberto Dante

Il 12/Gen/2017 00:57, "Chris Good" <chris.good at ozemail.com.au> ha scritto:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alberto Dante [mailto:alberto.dante at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2017 6:35 AM
> To: Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au>; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Advanced Portfolio Income (maybe Brokerage Fees too)
> incorrect in switch and multiple investments transactions
>
> Hi Chris,
> I'm sorry for the long delay due to end year holidays.
> Please have a look at attached files (screenshots are of the Advanced
> Portfolio reports).
> You can compare results using split transactions (wrong report results)
and
> no-split transactions (with DUMMY BANK right report results, as account
tree
> values) in the following cases:
> 1) Switch Investments (FUND 1 and 2)
> 2) Multiple Investments (FUND 3 and 4)
> 3) Reinvested dividends (FUND 5)
> I think user manuals should emphasize that split transactions must be
> avoided in order to have right Advanced Report results (for not-so-
> experienced users as me).
> I've lost many time to separate lot of split investment transactions.
> Hope this helps.
> Thanks, best regards
> Alberto
>

Hi Alberto,

OK, that sounds like a useful addition to the manual.
You're not the first to get into trouble from being too creative.

Regards, Chris Good