Yes, I have the following account structure:
Assets
Investments|
Brokerage Account, security/currency = USD
Security Account, security/currency = <ticker symbol>
Security Account, security/currency = <ticker symbol>
The Adv Profile report worked fine in the previous version of Gnucash
(4.4, I think it was). Cash balances in the Brokerage account worked
fine. In 5.4, it seems they're broken.
I created a "debug.gnucash file". If I delete ALL price db entries, the
Adv Profile report works fine. But if I have even one price in the price
db (manually entered, or downloaded), the USD in the brokerage account
have a price equal to the one security for which I have a price.
Whatever changed since 4.4, it would be nice to get it 'fixed'.
-marcus
On 10/28/23 12:58, john wrote:
On Oct 28, 2023, at 09:50, Marcus Winston <mar...@thechocolatehouse.net> wrote:
I've just updated to GC 5.4-1 (flatpak; linux). Something really strange is
going on. In the Advanced Portfolio report, the cash balance is reported in USD
(the correct currency), but the price of the currency is not $1. Sometimes it's
$11.88, sometimes it's $92.xx (92 and change). I did not notice this before, so
it may have happened under the previous version I was running 4.something).
But, something is really wrong. When I click on the hyperlink on the price, it
takes me to the price editor for a mutual fund that is not even part of the
account.
I did a fix and repair all, but that doesn't seem to have fixed it. Any hints
as to where to look would be appreciated.
I guess you mean that you included a currency account in the APR accounts as the APR doesn't
have anything labelled "cash balance". Acting on that guess I tried it and found that
the report logic apparently has no special-casing for an account in the report currency so it
goes looking for a price in the pricedb. Of course it won't find anything for USD-USD, so it
looks for a two-step conversion, USD->XXX->USD, comes up with something, and proceeds to
use that something to generate nonsense for the rest of the line.
While it's not hard to think of same-currency accounts that would make sense to be
included in the APR--a certificate of deposit comes immediately to mind--it's also easy
to think of cases where that could only produce nonsense, starting with your brokerage
cash account. Figuring out the "basis" and separating out the sweep or
money-market income from changes due to trades and inflows from other holdings would be
inordinately complex.
For the true currency investment like a CD or even a savings account you can
work around the pricing fail and generate a meaningful line in the APR by
inventing a security. That's technically correct for Money Market funds, where
you own units in the fund and the managers exert a great deal of effort to keep
the price of those units at $1.00, which effort is not always successful.
Regards,
John Ralls
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