[Kmymoney] Consistency Check Messages

[timothy]

No it was a local transaction involving a reinvested dividend (Tnterest)
and Dividend Tax (Fees). 

  <TRANSACTION postdate="2014-10-01" commodity="ZAR" memo=""
id="T000000000000010578" entrydate="2015-01-15">
   <SPLITS>
    <SPLIT payee="" reconcileflag="0" shares="17997/50" reconciledate=""
action="" bankid="" account="A000786" number="" value="17997/50" memo=""
id="S0001"/>
    <SPLIT payee="" reconcileflag="0" shares="-1919639/800"
reconciledate="" action="" bankid="" account="A000799" number=""
value="-1919639/800" memo="" id="S0002"/>
    <SPLIT payee="" reconcileflag="2" shares="683/2" price="2389/400"
reconciledate="2015-01-15" action="Reinvest" bankid="" account="A000020"
number="" value="1631687/800" memo="Administration now taken over by
Maitland.   Dividend dates now October and April." id="S0003"/>

Regards
Timothy


On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 11:48 +0200, Cristian Oneț wrote:
> Did the transaction involve accounts in different currencies? Could
> you also post the splits (right bellow the transaction entry, you can
> use 'grep -A 4' to show 4 lines after the match)?
> 
> Regards,
> Cristian
> 
> 2015-01-16 11:33 GMT+02:00 timothy <timboyle at afrihost.co.za>:
> > Hi
> >
> > I opened the share transaction for editing and then closed it (enter).
> > No editing took place.
> > I then saved the kmm file and the consistency check message came up. BTW
> > the transaction had been Reconciled previously. I grepped as advised.
> >
> >  <TRANSACTION postdate="2014-10-01" commodity="ZAR" memo=""
> > id="T000000000000010578" entrydate="2015-01-15">
> >
> > The postdate was the date of transaction. And entrydate was yesterday
> > when I first edited the file.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 10:57 +0200, Cristian Oneț wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This part of the consistency check does the following:
> >> "make sure, that shares and value have the same number if they
> >> represent the same currency."
> >>
> >> Thomas, could you elaborate a bit about the meaning of the shares and
> >> the value of a split? Sometimes I also find it difficult to figure out
> >> the meaning of these fields. What I know is that the transaction has
> >> an account and the split has another account. If the two accounts have
> >> different currencies then the shares represent the number of units
> >> represented by the split in the split account's currency and the value
> >> is the number of units in the transactions account's currency. Thus
> >> the price (conversion rate) is value/shares. Is this correct?
> >>
> >> If you see the fix it means that you have transactions with splits in
> >> an account that have different shares and values even though the split
> >> account's currency is the same as the transaction account's currency.
> >> The 'T000000....1234' is the transaction id that you can lookup in
> >> your kmymoney file.
> >>
> >> $zcat file.kmy | grep T000000....1234
> >>
> >> Please take a look at the transactions and try to figure how they
> >> ended up in this state.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Cristian
> >>
> >> 2015-01-16 10:22 GMT+02:00 timothy <timboyle at afrihost.co.za>:
> >> > Hi
> >> > I am running Kmymoney Version 4.7.90-6545e07c13
> >> > Using KDE Development Platform 4.14.2 on Mint 17.1 Rebecca MATE
> >> >
> >> > I have not worked out what it is that I am doing exactly to cause it ,
> >> > but I am now getting continual consistency check messages as per
> >> > attached. The last single message was after I had made an edit to the
> >> > Memo of a dividend reinvestment transaction, but had not edited the
> >> > values of the shares or prices.
> >> >
> >> > The messages are rather vague as they do not give the name of the share
> >> > or indicate what correction was made. Is the T000000....1234 a reference
> >> > or the correction?
> >> >
> >> > Any help would be valuable as I have not been doing anything different
> >> > to what I previously did without the messages.
> >> >
> >> > The only things I can think of are:
> >> > 1) I have compile and installed this version of kmm from source
> >> > 2) Work was done on the QIF dividend area to correct a separate problem
> >> >
> >> > Regards
> >> > Timothy
> >> >
> >> >
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