Very strange problems with OFX imported dividend reinvestment transactions from Fidelity

[Thomas Baumgart]

On Samstag, 31. August 2024 21:22:23 CEST Jack Ostroff via KMyMoney-devel wrote:

> I've been having problems with consistency check for a long time, but  
> never bothered to track down the cause.  I'm trying to do that now, and  
> everything I see just confuses me more.  I do assume that the initial  
> issue is introduced with the ofx import from Fidelity, but I also think  
> KMM is doing something funny here.
> 
> For one transaction, consistency check says:
>   * Split S0002 in transaction 'T000000000000000258' contains different  
> signs for shares and value. Please fix manually

I assume you do all this with the current master version. Can you send me
the details of an unaltered transaction (screenshot of the Transaction
detail output) via PM and maybe the plain XML of it?

> This is a dividend reinvestment transaction, and the ledger shows the  
> shares $149.44, price $1.00, and value $-149.44 (all in US Dollars, no  
> currency conversions involved.)  However, there is no error icon on  
> that entry.  Showing the transaction details matches these numbers in  
> the stock account, and all are positive in the interest/dividends  
> category,  If I then edit the transaction, all values show positive.   
> If I then click the enter button without changing anything, the  
> transaction shows an error icon with a missing assignment of $298.88.   
> At that point, transaction details shows the same for the stock  
> account, but shares and value both negative in the category account.   
> Editing the transaction again shows all numbers positive, but Enter  
> does not change anything.  If I then edit and change the shares to  
> negative, the ledger looks the same, but transaction details shows  
> negative shares and values in both accounts.  Another edit to remove  
> the minus sign on the number of shares clears the error in the ledger  
> and the transaction is no longer listed in the consistency report.
> 
> This all makes no sense to me, since my edits add then remove a minus  
> sign on the number of shares, I would not expect any net change, but at  
> the end, both shares and value show negative in the category in the  
> transaction details, although in the category ledger, it does show as  
> income, not expense.
> 
> Just to make things worse, if I start by looking at one of these  
> transaction (I have several) in the category ledger, the amount is  
> shown in the Expense coulumn, which is clearly wrong.  Transaction  
> details, as above, show positive shares and negative value in the stock  
> account but both positive in the category.  Editing and saving with no  
> changes seems similar to doing so in the investment account ledger,  
> with the error icon showing the missing assignement of twice the value  
> and transaction details showing positive shares and negative vlue in  
> the stock account, and both items negative in the category.  However,  
> if I then  edit the transaction, it shows as a Buy, with no Security  
> shown, and 0 for shares and price.
> 
> Since I never seem to notice this until long after I actually download  
> those transacations, and I don't save the download file (web connect  
> download) I'll have to find time to download a small sample and see if  
> I can reproduce the problem in a smaller test file.
> 
> Any other suggestions before I can create a small test case?
> 
> Jack

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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