I've been having problems with consistency check for a long time, but
never bothered to track down the cause. I'm trying to do that now, and
everything I see just confuses me more. I do assume that the initial
issue is introduced with the ofx import from Fidelity, but I also think
KMM is doing something funny here.
For one transaction, consistency check says:
* Split S0002 in transaction 'T000000000000000258' contains different
signs for shares and value. Please fix manually
This is a dividend reinvestment transaction, and the ledger shows the
shares $149.44, price $1.00, and value $-149.44 (all in US Dollars, no
currency conversions involved.) However, there is no error icon on
that entry. Showing the transaction details matches these numbers in
the stock account, and all are positive in the interest/dividends
category, If I then edit the transaction, all values show positive.
If I then click the enter button without changing anything, the
transaction shows an error icon with a missing assignment of $298.88.
At that point, transaction details shows the same for the stock
account, but shares and value both negative in the category account.
Editing the transaction again shows all numbers positive, but Enter
does not change anything. If I then edit and change the shares to
negative, the ledger looks the same, but transaction details shows
negative shares and values in both accounts. Another edit to remove
the minus sign on the number of shares clears the error in the ledger
and the transaction is no longer listed in the consistency report.
This all makes no sense to me, since my edits add then remove a minus
sign on the number of shares, I would not expect any net change, but at
the end, both shares and value show negative in the category in the
transaction details, although in the category ledger, it does show as
income, not expense.
Just to make things worse, if I start by looking at one of these
transaction (I have several) in the category ledger, the amount is
shown in the Expense coulumn, which is clearly wrong. Transaction
details, as above, show positive shares and negative value in the stock
account but both positive in the category. Editing and saving with no
changes seems similar to doing so in the investment account ledger,
with the error icon showing the missing assignement of twice the value
and transaction details showing positive shares and negative vlue in
the stock account, and both items negative in the category. However,
if I then edit the transaction, it shows as a Buy, with no Security
shown, and 0 for shares and price.
Since I never seem to notice this until long after I actually download
those transacations, and I don't save the download file (web connect
download) I'll have to find time to download a small sample and see if
I can reproduce the problem in a smaller test file.
Any other suggestions before I can create a small test case?
Jack
