# Transactions Issue

**URL:** <https://community.investengine.com/t/transactions-issue/820>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [12 February 2023 10:05 UTC](https://community.investengine.com/t/transactions-issue/820 "2023-02-12T10:05:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![P.H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@P.H](https://community.investengine.com/u/P.H)\
**Post date:** [12 February 2023 10:05 UTC](https://community.investengine.com/t/transactions-issue/820/1 "2023-02-12T10:05:31Z")

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The transactions section uses IE’s fund name to identify what has been bought/sold. However IE’s fund names are not unique e.g. the Accumulation and Distribution funds have the same name e.g. VUSA and VUAG both have the fund name ‘Vanguard S&P 500’. Thus if you have both funds it is not easy to tell them apart; especially if you are exporting the transaction table to a spreadsheet and automating the lookup. A simple fix would be for IE to include the Ticker in the transaction table?

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**Author:** ![chungf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@chungf](https://community.investengine.com/u/chungf)\
**Post date:** [12 February 2023 16:52 UTC](https://community.investengine.com/t/transactions-issue/820/2 "2023-02-12T16:52:02Z")

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An alternative solution might be to go to “Reports” » “Create report” and generate a “trading statement”, which contains the ISINs.

It’s still important to add tickers / ISINs to the transaction list so we can tell different funds apart, of course.

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**Author:** ![Ted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ted](https://community.investengine.com/u/Ted)\
**Post date:** [12 February 2023 20:01 UTC](https://community.investengine.com/t/transactions-issue/820/3 "2023-02-12T20:01:59Z")

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Agree this is annoying. As a workaround you can click on an individual fund and then click on ‘view transactions’. Not ideal but at least you know which transactions you are viewing this way.

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**Author:** ![P.H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@P.H](https://community.investengine.com/u/P.H)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2023 10:16 UTC](https://community.investengine.com/t/transactions-issue/820/4 "2023-02-13T10:16:31Z")

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Thanks @chungf, I haven’t looked at the reports so it was interesting to do so. A couple of observations on the Trading report:

- It is in ‘Settlement Date’ order which is OK but some dates are in the future so you have to select the end date for the report to cater for this. Interestingly I have trades in my Transaction tab which are marked as ‘Awaiting Settlement’ which have a ‘Settlement Date’ in the past on the report, so not sure what the ‘Settlement Date’ specifically means.
- The report has the problem of only 4 digits of precision for the ‘Quantity’, that has been raised in previous posts, so not suitable on its own for accurate reconciliation.

As with @Ted suggestion it is a way to identify more definitively the fund bought/sold though.