unexpected payee showing up in investment transaction

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi Jack,

On Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2018 00:12:37 CET Jack Ostroff wrote:

> I was looking through all transactions for a specific payee, and found  
> something that does not make any sense to me.
> 
> The payee is the US Treasury, which I use to track my federal tax  
> payments.  The transaction was "Sell shares" from an investment  
> account.  The transaction has three splits (looking into the xml file).
> - The first split is for the investment brokerage account for the  
> amount of the proceeds of the sale.
> - The second split is for the category I use for brokerage fees.
> - The third split is for the account of the equity being sold,  
> including the number of shares, price per share, total value of sale,  
> but also has that payee.

Could that be caused by some import operation?

> Why would there be any payee on that sort of transaction and how could  
> it have gotten there?  Is there any way to remove it other than  
> manually simply removing it from the file?

Does it go away, if you edit the transaction and save it back to the file (maybe make a little change and revert it again just to make sure it was saved to the data engine). The only idea I have other than fiddling with the XML file directly.

> At some point, I suppose  
> I'll see if there are any other investment transactions with payees in  
> them, but that will probably take me a bit of perl programming to hunt  
> through the file.
> 
> Thanks for any thoughts on this.
> 
> Jack

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Thomas Baumgart

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