[Kmymoney-devel] Question on new investment account

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

On Thursday 18 September 2014 18:03:44 Jack wrote:

> 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.

Yes, to me it sounds a bit weird too. Unless we allow an investment account to 
carry a dollar amount (like in a brokerage account) which we don't currently. 
So the opening balance for an investment account does not make sense in my 
eyes.

Thomas


> 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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Thomas Baumgart

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