Derek Atkins schrieb:
Hi,
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2.: CnuCash can not handle bonds correctly. Bonds differ from
stock or funds. You don't buy a certain number at a given price
(in a currency). Instead you buy a certain par (or face) value
at a given price in percent. Probably we need a new account
type for this.
I've never dealt with bonds directly. Question, when you buy bonds
don't you buy some quantity of them? Don't you pay some quantity for
them? E.g., don't you pay a total of $2400 for 12 bonds?
Not really. Yo pay e.g. $9800 for a par value of $10000 and this
means a price of 98%. And when you pull the bond price from
Finance::Quote you get the 98% and not 0.98. Usualy the par
value is quantised, i.e. you can buy bonds only in chunks of
e.g. $1000 or $10000.
3.: You cannot relate dividend or interest payments to securities.
This may cause incorrect portfolio reports. We would need to store
a reference to the stock/fund/bond account in a dividend/interest
income transaction to handle this.
I'm not sure if there's a good way to handle this besides a separate
income account per commodity to handle dividend/interest. At least
that's what the QIF importer does to pull in QIF dividends.
I think this is quite ugly. Can you store a link to the corresponding
stock/fund account with a dividend/interest transaction (e.g. in the
KVP frame)? The portfolio report could then use this link.
Of course some user interface issues nedd to be implemented for this
approach.
Herbert.
-derek
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