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

[Chris Good]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David T. [mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 14 January 2017 3:59 PM
> To: Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au>
> Cc: Alberto Dante <alberto.dante at gmail.com>; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Advanced Portfolio Income (maybe Brokerage Fees too)
> incorrect in switch and multiple investments transactions
> 
> 
> > On Jan 14, 2017, at 4:29 AM, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > Re your comment: Please note that FUND 5 dividend reinvest translation
> involves only one stock :
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > As per https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/report-
> classes.html#report-assets :
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> 
> 
> 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=

Hi David,

I don't have a preference for either way. I'm no expert on investments.

Regards, Chris Good
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