Investment anomalies?

[Jeff Barlow]

On 01/19/2016 04:07 PM, aga wrote:
> Extracted from mymoneyqifreader.cpp, and probably been there for many
>  years, so I'm afraid you probably have to work around this.

> * These transactions deal with short positions and options, which
> are * not supported at all by KMyMoney.  They will be ignored for
> now.

I said nothing about shorts or options. I doubt that has much bearing on
this issue. I'm just talking about ordinary reinvested dividends which
KMM does claim to handle.

Yesterday you wrote:

> Also, I've noticed that a Reinvest Income transaction appears to
> require an income category to be specified, although the amount may
> be zero. This doesn't seem right to me, but before I 'fix it', I'd
> appreciate views from other users, who have an opinion on this, as I
> know some have their own particular use of some of the fields, which
> might not be what I would expect.  And, the user is always right...

This is what I was responding to. There is nothing to "fix" there. A 
reinvested dividend should require an income category to be specified, 
it IS income.

> On 19/01/16 21:04, Jeff Barlow wrote:
>> On 01/19/2016 04:16 AM, aga wrote:
>>> On 19/01/16 02:41, Jeff Barlow wrote:
>>>> First let me concur that the category amount on a reinvested
>>>> dividend should never be zero. If it was then there is no
>>>> transaction to record. As Jack says it's exactly a dividend and
>>>> a buy rolled into one. The dividend is income and must be
>>>> accounted for as such....

>>> I don't see how the income can purchase shares and also appear as
>>> an apparent dividend payment. Perhaps someone can put me right on
>>> this.
>>
>> The income is in fact what is used to purchase the shares. It's
>> somewhat like a currency conversion....

About the calculation errors I pointed out you say:
>
> This may also be worth a wish-list entry, and in fact, more so than
> the support of options.  If you do do that, it would be helpful to
> show an example of your case.

I think it's really more of bug. KMM frequently comes up off by a penny 
or so on reinvested dividends. I have to manually correct this. I'll see 
if I can up with a simple test case and file a bug.


-- 
Later,
Jeff