sell stock

[Derek Atkins]

What's the transaction you're entering?  You're building a split
transaction, right?  It should look somethig like this:

It should look something like:

Date   Desc   Acct       Shares  Price   Buy   Sell
4/6/04 Sale
             Stock Acct    -100     10         1000
             Bank                        1000
             Stock Acct       0      0    200
             Income                             200

This is all described in the documentation.

-derek

Faisal Moledina <fmoledina at uwaterloo.ca> writes:

> I use 1.8.8 as well.  When I put 0 in the shares column, it replaces it with a 
> number once I hit enter.  let me see if i got this right.  the transfer 
> account for recording the profit is the same investment account where the 
> shares are being sold from right?  i just can't get a zero to stay in there.
>
> On April 6, 2004 3:12 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> What version of gnucash do you have?  recording a split with 0 shares
>> works just fine in 1.8.8.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>
>

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