sale of stock - transaction posts incorrectly

[Derek Atkins]

(forwarding back to the list)...

Glad to hear it solved the problem!

-derek

Keith Bellairs <keith at bellairs.org> writes:

> Thanks, Derek.
>
> Yes, that was the problem.
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>    
>     Keith Bellairs <keith at bellairs.org> writes:
>    
>     > Parent accounts are
>     > 1 Asset (top-level asset-type CAD)
>     >     1.4 Investments (child account asset-type CAD)
>     >         1.4.4 <mutual fund> (child account stock-type mutual-fund
>     security, no
>     > currency but it is a USD priced commodity)
>    
>     This is your problem!  The parent account of your fund account MUST have
>     the currency in which your fund is priced.  In this case your fund is
>     priced in USD but its parent is CAD.  That's your problem.  You need to
>     restructure your accounts so that you have:
>    
>       1 Asset (CAD)
>       __ 1.4 Investments (CAD)
>       ____ 1.4.4 Investment USD (USD)
>       ______1.4.4.1 <mutual fund>
>    
>     > For fun I changed the currency of "Investments" to USD, but <mutual
>     fund>
>     > continues to be broken. I have a variety of accounts with USD or CAD
>     > currencies. My "default currency" is CAD.
>    
>     Define "continues to be broken"?  Yes, anything that currently exists
>     will still be broken after this change.  But if you created a new
>     transaction from scratch (i.e. it didn't autocomplete) then it should
>     "work".
>
> You are correct: it continued to be broken when I did an autocomplete. When I
> manually entered a new transaction it posted correctly to the USD Check
> Receivable account on the other side of the transaction.
>
>     > There are other children of Investments that are asset accounts with
>     names
>     > like <broker name> and then stocks beneath them. They seem to all post
>     > correctly.
>    
>     Probably because the broker-name accounts have the correct currencies
>     for the underlying funds.
>
> Yup.
>
>     > KB
>    
>     -derek
>    
>     > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Hi,
>     >
>     >     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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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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