Stock sales & balance

[Conrad Canterford]

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 01:49, Martin Ewing wrote:
> This seems to arise from sales of appreciated (or, lately, depreciated) 
> stocks or mutual funds.  I was just doing the "obvious" thing of 
> recording a purchase of xxx shares at yyy dollars and a sale of -xxx 
> shares at zzz dollars.  This balances the number of shares, but 
> unbalances the dollars, because the prices are different.

<snip>

> What to make of this?  Is gnucash just not automated enough (auto CG 
> income)?  Should I just forget about account balance?  Am I missing 
> something?  Is this discussed somewhere in the documentation?

No, it isn't automated, and I don't believe its documented either. We've
had a discussion on this subject fairly recently, but I don't know that
any solution came out of it. This unfortunately applies for both 1.6
versions and the imminent 1.8.

> I would call this a gnucash bug, because it should not allow me to enter 
> an unbalanced transaction without ringing bells loudly.

Unfortunately, while some developers agree with you, others feel that
the transaction *is* balanced because its recording shares not money.

I guess that means that the answer at this point in time is that you
have to accept your balances all being out. Sorry.

Conrad.
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