Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

Charles Day wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:58 AM, David G. Hamblen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Charles Day wrote: > > On Fri, Jul

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:58 AM, David G. Hamblen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Charles Day wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:11 AM, David G. Hamblen < >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >>> >

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:58 AM, David G. Hamblen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles Day wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:11 AM, David G. Hamblen < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >> > [snip] > >>Now that r17292 enables me to test things, the "Average Cost" on >

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

Charles Day wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:11 AM, David G. Hamblen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Charles Day wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Christian Stimming > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:11 AM, David G. Hamblen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles Day wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >>Am Montag, 7. Juli 2008 18:42 schrieb Charles Day: >>> > So it's not a question

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

Charles Day wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Am Montag, 7. Juli 2008 18:42 schrieb Charles Day: > > > So it's not a question of absolute values in bookkeeping. It's > > > a question of absolute val

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:41:21 -0700 > From: "Charles Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Reporting: weighted average price source > To: "Derek Atkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PR

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:59 AM, David G. Hamblen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Charles Day wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >>> >>>"David G. H

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:59 AM, David G. Hamblen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles Day wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >>"David G. Hamblen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> writes: >> >>> A f

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Charles Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've added the new price source which I have called "Average Cost" (for > now, > > at least). Committed as r17266. > > > > For now I have not removed the "Weighted Average" pri

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

"Charles Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've added the new price source which I have called "Average Cost" (for now, > at least). Committed as r17266. > > For now I have not removed the "Weighted Average" price source from any > reports. I will have a look at that later on. When you do you mi

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

Charles Day wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > "David G. Hamblen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > writes: > > > A few years back (v1.8x), I had problems with these absolute > values, and

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag, 7. Juli 2008 18:42 schrieb Charles Day: > > > So it's not a question of absolute values in bookkeeping. It's > > > a question of absolute values in computing share prices. Not > > > the same thing. > > >

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Charles Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I agree with Derek. That is, the "weighted average" price source is not > > intended to compute the cost of your holdings, but rather to compute the > > volume-weighted averag

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

Am Montag, 7. Juli 2008 18:42 schrieb Charles Day: > > So it's not a question of absolute values in bookkeeping. It's > > a question of absolute values in computing share prices. Not > > the same thing. > > I agree with Derek. That is, the "weighted average" price source is not > intended to comp

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

"Charles Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree with Derek. That is, the "weighted average" price source is not > intended to compute the cost of your holdings, but rather to compute the > volume-weighted average price of all buys AND sells. So it needs to keep using > the absolute value. Howe

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "David G. Hamblen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > A few years back (v1.8x), I had problems with these absolute values, and >> I >> > patched re

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "David G. Hamblen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A few years back (v1.8x), I had problems with these absolute values, and > I > > patched report-utilities.scm,and commodity-utilites.scm so that the > balance > > sheet wo

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

"David G. Hamblen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A few years back (v1.8x), I had problems with these absolute values, and I > patched report-utilities.scm,and commodity-utilites.scm so that the balance > sheet would balance. In addition to completely removing all the numeric:abs, > I also had to

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

Charles Day wrote: > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >> Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 20:30 schrieb Charles Day: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >> wrote: >> Am Freitag, 4. Jul

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 20:30 schrieb Charles Day: > > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 04:31 schrieb Charles Day: > > > > For reports, do

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 20:30 schrieb Charles Day: > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 04:31 schrieb Charles Day: > > > For reports, does anyone know why the calculation for price source > > > "weighted average" uses the abso

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 04:31 schrieb Charles Day: > > For reports, does anyone know why the calculation for price source > > "weighted average" uses the absolute value in its calculations? It seems > to > > me that t

Re: Reporting: weighted average price source

Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 04:31 schrieb Charles Day: > For reports, does anyone know why the calculation for price source > "weighted average" uses the absolute value in its calculations? It seems to > me that this gives incorrect results. > > In most cases the figures for the "value" and "amount" f

Reporting: weighted average price source

For reports, does anyone know why the calculation for price source "weighted average" uses the absolute value in its calculations? It seems to me that this gives incorrect results. In most cases the figures for the "value" and "amount" fields of splits are either both negative or both positive, wh