sell stock

[Dave Reed]

I just tried this and it seems to work although it then shows up as
two transactions in the stock account register since the split has two
entries for that. Anyway to aovid that?

Thanks,
Dave


On Tuesday 06 April 2004 16:12, Derek Atkins wrote:
> It all has to be in one split transaction.  You have AT LEAST FOUR 
splits:
> 
> 1) The stock sale in the stock account      (sale)
> 2) The stock sale in the cash account       (net)
> 3) The stock gain in the stock account      (gain)
> 4) The stock gain in the income account     (gain)
> 
> Optionally you can have a commission in the expense account.
> 
> sale = net+commission
> gain = gain
> 
> -derek
> 
> Faisal Moledina <fmoledina at uwaterloo.ca> writes:
> 
> > ok.  i think i was doing thing in the wrong order, trying to force 
the profit 
> > before balancing it with the income.  thanks for your help :) .
> >
> > fideli
> >
> > On April 6, 2004 4:00 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> Well, for one thing it's not balanced!  Fix that first.
> >>
> >> -derek
> >
> >
> 
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