strange behaviour in stock buy transaction
Hale Boyes, Kevin
Kevin.HaleBoyes at encana.com
Thu May 3 19:04:11 EDT 2007
Is there any way to tell what locale I'm in?
Would I be able to set me locale to en_CA and have it
work properly?
I've read the bug report but there doesn't seem to be any
consensus on how this might be fixed. The patch presented in
comment #7 seems like it would work in my case but it is
different than comment #4 which also seems like a workable
solution.
Is there anything I can do to help us reach an agreement
on how to proceed? Once that has happened I'm willing
to work on a patch.
Kevin.
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:40 PM
To: Hale Boyes, Kevin
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: strange behaviour in stock buy transaction
Hi,
I bet you're in the C locale (or maybe en_US), so your locale currency
is USD, not CAD. So you're probably hitting this bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116353
-derek
Quoting "Hale Boyes, Kevin " <Kevin.HaleBoyes at encana.com>:
> I've been learning more about tracking stock purchases and sales
> in GnuCash and have found something I don't understand.
>
> First some setup:
> - start GC with --nofile and then create a new file.
> - choose CAD for currency.
> - choose Common + Investment accounts with no opening balances.
> - create new accounts under "Brokerage Account"
> - type Cash named Cash.
> - type Stock named SUNW (for which I created a new commodity
> with fraction 1/100 on the NASDAQ.
> - move $1000 into "Checking Account" from Equity:Opening Balances.
>
> When I buy stock I tend to transfer money from my chequing account
into
> my brokerage account. Then I buy the stock. The end price may not
use
> up the full amount of cash that I transfered but that is fine as I run
> a positive cash balance in my brokerage account.
>
> So, I transfered $400 from chequing to the new cash account under
> "Brokerage Account" -- Assets:Investments:Brokerage Account:Cash.
> Now the balance shown in that ledger is $400.
>
> Then I buy some shares of SUNW. So, in the SUNW ledger I enter a
> buy with the offset account being Assets:Investments:Brokerage
> Account:Cash
> and everything looks fine until I look back into the cash account.
> The buy transaction is displayed but the amount fields are blank and
> the balance has not been adjusted and still displays $400.
>
> I expect the balance to have been adjusted for the money I just used
> to buy the stock but maybe there is something that I'm missing.
>
> I've included a couple of screen shots.
> This is happening with 2.0.5 and trunk on FC6.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin.
>
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