[Kmymoney-devel] Question on new investment account

[Jack]

But the only balance in an investment account is number of shares, not dollars. I can see allowing a starting number of shares when creating a security or adding a security to an investment account.

Cristian Oneț <onet.cristian at gmail.com> wrote:

>I guess that by allowing an opening balance a user can start tracking
>an already existing account without caring about historic
>transactions.
>
>Regards,
>Cristian
>
>2014-09-18 19:04 GMT+03:00 Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net>:
>> For some of the testing I've done recently, I created a new Investment
>> account, and noticed that it is possible to specify an opening balance.
>> This is the Investment account, not the Brokerage account.  Since the only
>> content of an Investment account should be Securities, this seems wrong to
>> me.  Is there a reason for this that I don't understand, or is it just an
>> unintended consequence of the reusing code for multiple types of accounts?
>> It's clearly not very important, but it got me curious.
>>
>> Jack
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