> On Aug 12, 2015, at 2:13 PM, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > It might help to consider what the price db is used for: Aside from providing > a default rate in the transfer dialog, it’s used for pricing assets in the > Accounts page and the summary bar — only the latest entry is used there. It’s > used for calculating values in reports, where the reports can use a weighted > average, nearest in time, most recent, or average cost. I need to look to see > if the average cost actually looks at the buy transactions or if it does > something similar to nearest in time and at weighted average to see what it’s > averaging and how it’s weighting the averaged values. Depending on what those > two are doing might drive whether multiple F::Q entries per day make sense, > assuming that the algorithms make sense.
OK, I’ve looked. They don’t use the price db, which is what one would expect. Weighted-average is weighted by the transaction size, which will be distorted by stock splits but is otherwise OK. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
