Entering Stock Information

[Michael Ward Cole]

Thanks for helping me get the program to accept the information.  Now
for another problem.  I have entered the information on the stocks and
have the acccount registry showing the number of shares, but it shows
<No Info> or something of that sort in the Current Value field (I may be
		wrong about the name) that are at the top of the register.  Then
when I look at the general account listings, the values for the stocks
are all $0.00.  In putting the initial information into each account, I
entered a desc, # of share, etc.  I am not quite certain what the
transfer should be though.  I am currently in the <named> stocks
account.  And the shares were a gift, so I didn't purchase them. But
should I transfer from Equity:Opening Balances to the stock account or
what?  Thanks for any help.
Michael

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:27:43PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 14:59, Michael Ward Cole wrote:
> > I am using Gnucash 1.6.4 on a Debian potato/testing distribution with
> > linux kernel 2.2.20.  I am trying to enter stock information.  I am
> > making an account under the Assets:Stock:stockname.  I then open the
> > account and see the line registry to enter a description, shares, cost,
> > buy or sell.  I enter the number of shares and the cost and the buy
> > amount.  But when I leave the line, it converts the number of shares to
> > equal the buy amount and the cost to $1.  This is perplexing to me.  I
> > have never used this before so I am just trying to learn how to use it.
> > Any help would be greatfully appreciated.
> 
> Have you entered a security for the stock account?
> Use the Edit Account dialog to do so.
> 
> dave
> 



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