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

[David T.]

> On Jan 14, 2017, at 4:29 AM, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
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> Re your comment: Please note that FUND 5 dividend reinvest translation involves only one stock :
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> You seem to be saying that ‘Money In’ should include cost of stock acquired as part of the DRP but that is not what the APR does.
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> As per https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/report-classes.html#report-assets :
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> Money In: Sum of the cost of stock purchased, excluding stock acquired as part of a Dividend Reinvestment Plan. I.e. External money used to purchase shares.
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> In this case, you SHOULD to do the dividend and the addition of the stock in the 1 transaction so that APR knows the addition was from the DRP.
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> If you do it as 2 transactions, APR doesn’t know that the stock was acquired as part of the DRP, although maybe this is what you really want.
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Chris, and others,

I know that I am dense when it comes to many things (and accounting is one of them, for sure!), but it would seem to me that cost basis should include shares purchased through a DRP. To my mind, a DRP simply combines two transactions into one: 1) shares pay a dividend (income), and 2) dividend buys stock. Shouldn’t that be figured into the basis? Or have I got that completely wrong?

TIA,
David