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Error in the calculation of investment account balance

I've been importing 20-years worth of Quicken data into Moneydance and, so far, it has done a GREAT job. After reading many posts from users who had problems with importing a QIF file from Quicken, mine has gone very well with just a handful of transactions that needed tweaking before almost everything balanced.

I've been carefully checking my investment accounts to ensure that the right number of shares for the correct stocks appear in the expected accounts. That's all OK - everything matches exactly. I've also been checking that Moneydance downloads the correct current prices for each stock and that the price matches the ones downloaded into Quicken at the same time. Again, everything matches.

I then started to look at the investment account totals as a final check, but found that they don't match the Quicken results.

In other words, the share numbers are right, the prices are right, but the maths in Moneydance appears to be wrong.

Let me quote a specific example:-

In one particular account I hold 1306 shares in BP.L. The most recent price downloaded for this share in Quicken and Moneydance is £5.2875

Quicken correctly reports the current value of this stock in that account as £6905.48

Moneydance reports the value on the homepage as £6843.44

Apologies if I am being stupid here, but it looks like Moneydance is mis-calculating the current value of the stock.

This is repeated on every stock that I've checked.

As far as I can see, the documentation doesn't specify how the value of individual stocks listed in the investment accounts on the homepage are calculated, but one would assume that it would be 'number of shares' x 'most recently downloaded price'.

This doesn't seem to be what it's doing!

Can someone explain this?

By the way, I'm using Moneydance 2008r2 (617)

Thanks,

Mike
 
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