Stock trades and realized gains/losses

[Linas Vepstas]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:19:08AM -0600, Matthew Vanecek was heard to remark:
> 
> I think the double balance thing may work OK.  Would the stock register
> have to be able to accept entries with 0 shares but non-0 buy/sell
> amounts to make that work?  I would think so, but if there's a better

Yes.

> way...

The only alternative that I see is to have the adjustment posted as a 
a pair of splits posted to the same account,  with equal-opposite numshrs,
and different values.

> That was a great summary from Linas.  Could there be a check for 

As stated earlier, I'm trying to get to the place where I can tackle this and 
the related book-closing work (which 'works' except for stock accounts, and 
except for no gui for it.)  I need to carve out a block of time to work on this;
I've got some higher-priority stuff first though (e.g. redoing the servers)

--linas




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