Adding new shares of stocks

[Derek Atkins]

You open the stock account, enter 50 in the shares column, and 10 in
the price column..  It should fill in "buy" when you finally enter the
transaction.

-derek

Matt <matt at kettlewell.net> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to GnuCash, so maybe I am missing something fundamental to the
> system.
> 
> When I try to add shares of stock, and take the cost out of by brokerage
> account, I tell it 50 shares , at a price of $10.  this should be a net
> buy of $500.  But when I enter the transaction, it reveals to me that
> there where 500 shares at $1 per share.  Is this a flaw in the system,
> or am I being an idiot?
> 
> I'm using GnuCash 1.8.2 on a RH 8.0 system with Gnome 2 for a desktop
> 
> Any thoughts would be great.
> 
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
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