Residual value after removing all shares from investment

[Jack]

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I'm pretty sure this will not do what Timothy wants.  If you simply  
move the purchase transaction from one account to the other, there will  
be no history of those shares ever having been in the first account.   
If that is acceptable, then it would certainly work.  This is a known  
issue, and although I do not see a wish list filed for it, it is likely  
something that will be addressed when the entire handling of  
investments is revised.  Unfortunately, it is not clear how soon this  
is likely to actually be done.

Another possible workaround would be to sell the shares in the first  
account, using the same price as at purchase.  That should get the  
value of the account to zero.  Then purchase the shares in the second  
account at the same price.  The problem with that is that it introduces  
an incorrect point in the price history, and does not retain the actual  
acquisition date of the shares.

Separately, I'm pretty sure the issue of rounding error has already  
been addressed, so I would strongly suggest upgrading to 5.0.1.   
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with the LMDE distro, and because I do  
see a note that it is not compatible with PPAs, I don't know if there  
is a packaged version of 5.0.1 available for you.  Might you be able to  
compile it yourself from the tarball?  That's probably your best bet if  
you can't find a suitable .deb package.

Jack

On 2018.04.18 13:09, Michael Carpino wrote:
> Instead of using the Add/Remove option have you thought about using  
> the
> Move transaction?  When you right-click the transaction for a buy or
> reinvestment the software allows you to move the transaction to  
> another
> account.  With the move feature, it allows you to maintain the  
> original
> purchase value.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 6:00 AM, <kmymoney-request at kde.org> wrote:
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> >    1. Residual value after removing all shares from investment  
> (timothy)
> >
> >  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:45:44 +0200
> > From: timothy <timboyle at afrihost.co.za>
> >
> > Hi
> > KMM Version 4.8.1-ebeeced071
> > Linux Mint Debian Edition 2
> >
>> I am transferring shares from an investment in one account to the  
>> same investment in a different account. There is no sell/buy of  
>> shares, just a share transfer. Since there is no transfer option in  
>> investments I decided to use the Add/Remove option.
> >
>> However when I 'removed' all the shares from the first investment,  
>> the Investment Value remained at 7 cents although the number of  
>> residual shares was zero.
> >
>> I have a price precision of 4 digits, but the number of shares  
>> precision is only 3. This is rounded off from the input precision of  
>> 4 digits. I cannot find any way of changing this precision. It would  
>> seem that this is the reason for the residual 7 cent value since  
>> this is the only numerical variable input in the 'remove shares'  
>> option.
> >
>> Anyone have any ideas? The residual value means I cannot close this  
>> investment and account.
> >
> > Regards
> > Timothy