Investment anomalies?

aga agander93 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 12:18:55 UTC 2016



On 20/01/16 00:44, Jeff Barlow wrote:
> 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.
>

Good grief!  I mixed up the reply with an aspect of another bug.  Many 
apologies.  I hope I didn't confuse you as much as I did myself.

If you are able to derive a transaction to illustrate the behaviour, 
that will help.

Allan

> 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.
>
>


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