In regards to #4 & 5, I ran that report and I don’t see any similar error messages. I do have foreign currency assets, but I don’t trade them or stocks or have any funds. (though I do have trading accounts turned on)
You’d have to investigate further. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 5, 2018, at 10:37 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> On Apr 5, 2018, at 7:43 AM, Deva - <pobox.d...@outlook.in> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Firstly, thank you all for this new and much awaited version. >> >> I have just installed GC 3.0 on Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.4 and have been >> browsing through what’s new and what’s improved and these are observations >> from my initial test run… >> >> 1. When I first moved from 2.6.6 to 2.6.19, I ran into an issue with average >> cost as a price source on my mutual fund account. See >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368. I thought this was fixed >> in 3.0, but it doesn’t seem to be. Note, however, that the use case I gave >> in that bug report earlier has been fixed, but other investment accounts >> seem to have issues. Upon reviewing the account with the cost issue, only >> thing I can see is that when a mutual fund account has both purchases and >> redemptions, the balance sheet report using average cost price source >> doesn’t report the cost correctly. When there are only purchases, the cost >> is computed correctly. Is anyone else seeing this problem? I am keen on >> moving to 3.0 due to other features introduced in this version, but this is >> keeping me grounded. I can share an account report and the balance sheet >> report privately to whoever is interested in diagnosing this problem. >> > I think that’s intended behavior of the ‘average cost’ option. (‘cost’ is > supposed to only look at buys, not sells, but it in fact, looks at both) You > probably want ‘weighted average’ instead. Read over this comment from a bug > report on the ‘average cost’ issue: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368#c4 > > This was ‘fixed’ by making ’nearest in time’ the default instead of ‘average > cost’. > >> 2. The currency symbol (INR in this case) is printed in bold (looks that way >> from its appearance), which makes it look like a blob on the reports. On the >> main CoA page, the currency is distinctly clearer. Is there a setting to >> make it look like the way it appears on CoA? (see screenshot attached) > > I could be wrong, but that looks like a font issue. Perhaps experiment with > the choices for the stylesheet. It might be a simple solution of increasing > the size, but finding a cleaner font might be the best route. >> >> 3. One much awaited feature is the ability to import prices from a csv file. >> I could never get Finance::Quote to work with my India stocks and mutual >> funds, so I have been manually updating prices on a monthly basis. So this >> feature greatly helps. When I try to do a sample import of prices, I ran >> into an issue. My csv file has 4 columns - date (dd-mm-yyyy), ticker, price, >> currency. So on the import screen, I clicked on the header (of the datafile >> shown in a grid) and 4 options crop up to select date, commodity from, >> currency to and amount. But I am unable to select any of these options to >> designate the column as a date, amount, etc. It shows me a drop down listing >> 4 options for column type, but no matter what I click, nothing gets >> selected. On this screen, I did select the date format as d-m-y. > > Based on the initial report in this older bug report: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779565, perhaps try changing the > delimiter and/or closing the book and trying again. > >> >> 4. When I first came across balance sheet (eguile) report in 2.6.6, I took a >> liking for this report more than the regular balance sheet report. However, >> the eguile report contained a warning as a footnote saying - Development >> version - double check the numbers… >> In all the time I have looked at this report since, I haven’t come across >> any differences between the eguile and the non-eguile versions. I haven’t >> scrutinised this on an account by account basis, just on an overall equity, >> assets, liability, etc. and the numbers always matched. >> But I see this warning even in the 3.0 version! Has anyone ever had problems >> trusting the numbers on the eguile report? >> >> 5. Having said that, v3.0 does seem to have a problem with the eguile >> balance sheet report (see screenshot attached). Towards the end, where it >> prints the exchange rates used for stock prices, it’s showing some sort of >> internal report error. > > Looks like the report needs to be updated for 3.0. This might be some > guidance with respect to your #4. > >> >> 6. Despite these observations, if I start using GC 3.0 and later decide to >> go back to 2.6.* versions due to balance sheet inconsistencies, is that >> possible? I seem to recall reading some notes on the release stating that >> latest versions change folder locations and some internal structural >> changes, so I worry that once I save a datafile in 3.0, it may prevent me >> from opening it in 2.6.11 (say) - my last stable version where the balance >> sheet numbers are still shown correctly. > > Based on the release notes, because of the matching filters used for your > imported transactions, you will only be able to open the file with 2.6.20 > (soon to be released) or 3.0. You’d have to upgrade that 2.6.11 version. > > >> >> Cheers, >> Deva >> [cid:3F033200-4983-44C5-B123-3A64EC836019@Belkin] >> [cid:F28BB88B-9071-4915-986F-7E9FBBC2A6DC@Belkin] >> <ccy.png><bs eguile.png>_______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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