gnucash-user Digest, Vol 7, Issue 30

Stephan Pouh smpouh at gmx.at
Wed Oct 29 06:00:52 CST 2003


On Wednesday 29 October 2003 00:00, gnucash-user-request at lists.gnucash.org 
wrote:
> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:38:44 -0500
> From: Jason McLaren <gnucash at fnord.ca>
> Subject: Re: mutual fund purchase doesn't reduce cash balance
> To: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> Cc: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Message-ID: <9CED3BA4-0900-11D8-AB17-000A958524C4 at fnord.ca>
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> 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.
> > 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.
I had the exact same problem in Gnucash 1.8.1 (although it seems to not reduce 
the balance regardless of the two accounts being in USD or different 
currencies) and funnny enough came up with the same solution after tinkering 
with it for a while. Once you know how to do it it is not a big deal. 
However, shouldn't it do that automatically from the stock account too? 
Anyway, still great software.

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