Problem Creating Stock Account

[Derek Atkins]

"Fred Bone" <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> writes:

>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> You're not - it is. Either it should be possible to select a "Currency" 
> for a placeholder Stock account - in which case it should let you do so - 
> or it should not - in which case the Druid's setup file is wrong.

Nope, gnucash is doing it right, exactly how it's supposed to work.  A
stock account indeed requires a non-currency commodity.  This is not a
bug.  If you want to have a parent account then don't make it of type
Stock.  Make it type Asset (or, as you suggest, type Bank).

> A work-round I used is to set the placeholder account up as account-type 
> "Bank", which lets you use a Currency (indeed, won't let you do 
> otherwise). This does prevent the sub-accounts defaulting to type 
> "Stock", which is a pain (as you have to set each one individually), but 
> it does what you want.

This isn't "the workaround", this is how it's supposed to work.

-derek

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