Problem in recording a share purchase

[Derek Atkins]

Try setting the stock account "commodity" properly; you need to set it
to the stock commodity.  Select the account in the account window, click
"edit", and then find the commodity selection.  You probably need to
create a new commodity for your stock.

Note that you need 1 account per stock.

-derek

Wilfried <wilfried_h at web.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> when I try to record my share purchase, I am not able to change the price per 
> share from 1,00. What ever I do, the price is 1,00 and the number of shares 
> changes to the debit.
> I already used the commodity editor to change the type and symbols, but if I 
> take any symbol like DWS the balance is equal to the number of shares and in 
> the account overlook the I get the currency "DWS".
> The problem started when I updated to Gnucash 1.8.1. I use Linux Mandrake 9.1 
> and KDE 3.1. The update to Gnucash 1.8.2 was also unsuccessfull.
> 
> I hope you can help me, because I was always very happy with Gnucash and do 
> not want to change to another program.
> 
> Wilfried
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