Hello,

Firstly, thank you all for this new and much awaited version.

I have just installed GC 3.0 on Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.4 and have been 
browsing through what’s new and what’s improved and these are observations from 
my initial test run…

1. When I first moved from 2.6.6 to 2.6.19, I ran into an issue with average 
cost as a price source on my mutual fund account. See 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368. I thought this was fixed in 
3.0, but it doesn’t seem to be. Note, however, that the use case I gave in that 
bug report earlier has been fixed, but other investment accounts seem to have 
issues. Upon reviewing the account with the cost issue, only thing I can see is 
that when a mutual fund account has both purchases and redemptions, the balance 
sheet report using average cost price source doesn’t report the cost correctly. 
When there are only purchases, the cost is computed correctly. Is anyone else 
seeing this problem? I am keen on moving to 3.0 due to other features 
introduced in this version, but this is keeping me grounded. I can share an 
account report and the balance sheet report privately to whoever is interested 
in diagnosing this problem.

2. The currency symbol (INR in this case) is printed in bold (looks that way 
from its appearance), which makes it look like a blob on the reports. On the 
main CoA page, the currency is distinctly clearer. Is there a setting to make 
it look like the way it appears on CoA? (see screenshot attached)

3. One much awaited feature is the ability to import prices from a csv file. I 
could never get Finance::Quote to work with my India stocks and mutual funds, 
so I have been manually updating prices on a monthly basis. So this feature 
greatly helps. When I try to do a sample import of prices, I ran into an issue. 
My csv file has 4 columns - date (dd-mm-yyyy), ticker, price, currency. So on 
the import screen, I clicked on the header (of the datafile shown in a grid) 
and 4 options crop up to select date, commodity from, currency to and amount. 
But I am unable to select any of these options to designate the column as a 
date, amount, etc. It shows me a drop down listing 4 options for column type, 
but no matter what I click, nothing gets selected. On this screen, I did select 
the date format as d-m-y.

4. When I first came across balance sheet (eguile) report in 2.6.6, I took a 
liking for this report more than the regular balance sheet report. However, the 
eguile report contained a warning as a footnote saying - Development version - 
double check the numbers…
In all the time I have looked at this report since, I haven’t come across any 
differences between the eguile and the non-eguile versions. I haven’t 
scrutinised this on an account by account basis, just on an overall equity, 
assets, liability, etc. and the numbers always matched.
But I see this warning even in the 3.0 version! Has anyone ever had problems 
trusting the numbers on the eguile report?

5. Having said that, v3.0 does seem to have a problem with the eguile balance 
sheet report (see screenshot attached). Towards the end, where it prints the 
exchange rates used for stock prices, it’s showing some sort of internal report 
error.

6. Despite these observations, if I start using GC 3.0 and later decide to go 
back to 2.6.* versions due to balance sheet inconsistencies, is that possible? 
I seem to recall reading some notes on the release stating that latest versions 
change folder locations and some internal structural changes, so I worry that 
once I save a datafile in 3.0, it may prevent me from opening it in 2.6.11 
(say) - my last stable version where the balance sheet numbers are still shown 
correctly.

Cheers,
Deva
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