> On Apr 5, 2018, at 8:37 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 > <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368#c4> > > This was ‘fixed’ by making ’nearest in time’ the default instead of ‘average > cost’.
Not quite. Read the *rest* of the bug, especially https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368#c36 <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368#c36>. BTW, Deva is well aware of that bug, he wrote comment 35. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ 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.
