> On Jan 12, 2018, at 9:43 PM, Deva - <pobox.d...@outlook.in> wrote: > > Thanks John. > > I haven’t filed a bug/enhancement before - GnuCash has been wonderful as it > is! I will look into how to do this and add the use case as you suggested. > > In the meantime, should I downgrade to 2.6.11 (last version where cost basis > is correctly reported)? The reason I upgraded was because I saw some post on > the list stating that if I upgrade to Mac OS High Sierra, then GnuCash needs > to be at 2.6.19. So I upgraded GnuCash in preparation of the Mac OS upgrade. > > If I downgrade to 2.6.11, will it be compatible with Mac OS High Sierra? > > I don’t say it enough - this community’s immense support is deeply > appreciated. Not just on technical aspects, I have gotten so many good ideas > on accounting concepts as well, just by reading through other’s posts. Many > thanks to all of you for your timely help! > > Cheers. >> On 12-Jan-2018, at 8:44 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us >> <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Jan 12, 2018, at 3:43 AM, Deva - <pobox.d...@outlook.in >>> <mailto:pobox.d...@outlook.in>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am on Mac OS Sierra v10.12.6. >>> >>> Until a few days ago, I was using GnuCash 2.6.6 and just in the last 2 >>> days, I upgraded to the latest version 2.6.19. >>> >>> After running a preliminary test of some of the reports I use for tax >>> reporting purposes, I noticed that the cost basis on one of my mutual funds >>> has changed significantly (see attached screenshot for the transactions on >>> that mutual fund account). >>> >>> Some history on this fund. It used to be called Fidelity Flexi Gilt Fund >>> and I had invested INR 850,000 and accumulated 70,362.427 shares as of >>> 16-Nov-12. But on 23-Nov-2012, Fidelity sold its mutual fund business in >>> India to L&T Mutual Fund and the latter decided to merge Fidelity’s gilt >>> fund into its own - now called L&T Gilt Fund. >>> >>> When this merger happened, I simply used the stock split assistant to >>> reduce the no. of shares by 34,769.081 based on the account statement sent >>> by L&T. >>> >>> As of 2.6.6, the (average) cost basis on the balance sheet report correctly >>> showed INR 850,000 even after the “stock split” transaction. But in the >>> latest version 2.6.19, the balance sheet report shows the same cost basis >>> as 429,978.69. I think it has reduced the cost basis by the cost of the >>> shares reduced from the merger i.e., 34,769.081 shares. >>> >>> This is causing such differences to show up as imbalance in my reports! >>> >>> Has the computation of cost basis changed between these versions? If so, >>> how should I go about accounting for cases such as above to maintain proper >>> cost basis? >>> >>> Odd thing though is that I have a no. of stocks that declared a stock >>> split, but in those cases, the cost basis is correctly maintained even >>> after the split. This behaviour is only seen in mutual fund shares (as far >>> as I can tell). >>> >>> I rely on GnuCash reports for my annual tax reporting, so it’s important >>> that the reports I generate have a proper explanation for the numbers shown. >>> >>> Thanks in advance for your time. >> >> Yes, the calculation of average cost changed in 2.6.12 to fix a bug, but >> that opened another can of worms, see >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368 >> <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368>. I intend to have a >> solution for 3.0 and if you can add the details of your use-case to the bug >> that will help.
The issue with 2.6.17 and earlier on High Sierra is a mismatched version of libz. You can work around it on the earlier versions by copying /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib to Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib. That’s more easily done from the command line as Finder prefers not to show either /usr or the inside of app bundles, though it can be coerced to. Note as well that you can have both 2.6.11 and 2.6.19 on a Mac. Either rename one of the bundles or keep them in separate directories. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
