[Kmymoney-devel] [Bug 274185] QIF investment import with Lcategory:sub-category creates new incorrect category

[allan]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274185


allan <agander93 at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from allan <agander93 gmail com>  2011-05-29 12:11:55 ---
I've added today's list post to the bug -
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These are standard transactions which were downloaded from the
investment website. Buys and sells of shares do not always have to take
place.

The equity account only gets entries from a buy or sell or reinvestment
of shares. All other cash transactions are shown in the brokerage
account. The two accounts are a pair. The broker uses the cash in the
brokerage to do the share transactions.

Let me explain the cash transactions. They are not transfers between
accounts. The shares generate dividends in the form of cash payouts, the
money in the brokerage account generates interest, and the broker
charges fees. All these transactions take place in the brokerage/cash
account unless I use the L[account:sub-account] option, then they take
place as transfers to/from another account. If I buy shares the money
comes from the brokerage unless I use the L[]. This is necessary as
sometimes there is not enough money in the brokerage to cover expenses
or purchases. However there has to be a certain threshold of cash to
cover the brokers fees.

I have just done a test run with that example file. I created an asset
account "ETF" under Assets. "Satrix" with its accompanying brokerage
account is an investment sub-account of ETF and contains an investment
Satrix 40. I then imported the QIF into the investment account Satrix
and all three cash transactions appeared in the brokerage account. The
import must be done into ETF equity account and not into the ETF
brokerage account. KMM sorts out the correct account internally. AFAIK
the brokerage account is never used directly - KMM does that
programmatically.

By the way if you use the full QIF header as below, KMM then knows what
account you are working with and does not ask you in the wizard.

!Account
NETF:Satrix
TInvst
^
!Type:Invst
rest of the example file

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