mutual fund purchase doesn't reduce cash balance

[Jason McLaren]

On Monday, Oct 27, 2003, at 23:00 Canada/Eastern, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Uhh, wait... If the Cash account is type Bank then it shouldn't have
> Shares/Price/Buy/Sell columns, it should have Deposit/Withdrawal
> columns.

Sorry, that should be:

Description Transfer                Deposit Withdrawal Balance
Buy         <blank>                                    10
Buy         Assets:Broker:FOO965
<blank>     Assets:Broker:Cash
<blank>     <blank>

> How did you enter the transaction?

I opened the FOO965 account and entered the transaction in Basic Ledger 
mode, choosing the Cash account in the Transfer column, and entering 
the appropriate amounts in the Shares, Price, and Buy columns.

Your question prompted me to try entering the transaction from the Cash 
account, choosing the FOO965 account in the Transfer column, and 
entering the appropriate amount in the Withdrawal column.  That brought 
up a Transfer Funds dialog where I got to choose the exchange rate 
between the two commodities.  After that the transaction appeared 
correctly in both account ledgers.

Dunno why I didn't think of that.  Thanks!

--jason