Fwd: sale of stock - transaction posts incorrectly

[Keith Bellairs]

oops. forgot to reply all. sorry for the noise.

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From: Keith Bellairs <keith at bellairs.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: sale of stock - transaction posts incorrectly
To: Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>


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
> >     --
> >            Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> >            Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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> >
>
> --
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>        warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
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