Hi Jack, On Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2018 00:12:37 CET Jack Ostroff wrote:
> I was looking through all transactions for a specific payee, and found > something that does not make any sense to me. > > The payee is the US Treasury, which I use to track my federal tax > payments. The transaction was "Sell shares" from an investment > account. The transaction has three splits (looking into the xml file). > - The first split is for the investment brokerage account for the > amount of the proceeds of the sale. > - The second split is for the category I use for brokerage fees. > - The third split is for the account of the equity being sold, > including the number of shares, price per share, total value of sale, > but also has that payee. Could that be caused by some import operation? > Why would there be any payee on that sort of transaction and how could > it have gotten there? Is there any way to remove it other than > manually simply removing it from the file? Does it go away, if you edit the transaction and save it back to the file (maybe make a little change and revert it again just to make sure it was saved to the data engine). The only idea I have other than fiddling with the XML file directly. > At some point, I suppose > I'll see if there are any other investment transactions with payees in > them, but that will probably take me a bit of perl programming to hunt > through the file. > > Thanks for any thoughts on this. > > Jack -- Regards Thomas Baumgart https://www.signal.org/ Signal, the better WhatsApp ------------------------------------------------------------- There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way ;) -- Thich Nhat Hanh -------------------------------------------------------------
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