sale of stock - transaction posts incorrectly

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Keith Bellairs <keith at bellairs.org> writes:

> I sold a security and entered the amount received in the "Sell" column. I
> entered an asset account (say my checking account) as the "Transfer"
> account in the ledger. After saving the transaction, I jump to the transfer
> account and find that the transaction has been entered with no amount
> entered as either a debit or credit -- just blanks. So that seriously
> unbalances my books. If I try to manually enter the debit amount in the
> receiving asset account, then the account window for that account freezes,
> in that I cannot move out of the highlighted broken transaction. If I then
> try to close the receiving account window I get the warning that there is a
> pending transaction. Clicking Save Transaction allows the window to close,
> but no amount is recorded with the transaction.
>
> When I try this with a different security gnc works correctly. So something
> about this particular security account is busted. Interestingly, dividend
> transactions for the broken security post the income side of the
> transaction correctly.

What are the parent accounts of these two securities?  In particular
what are the parent account type(s) and account currency?

-derek
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