sell stock

[Derek Atkins]

Dave Reed <drlinux at columbus.rr.com> writes:

> I just tried this and it seems to work although it then shows up as
> two transactions in the stock account register since the split has two
> entries for that. Anyway to aovid that?

Nope.  It'll always have two entries in stock account.  No way around
it.

> Thanks,
> Dave

-derek

> On Tuesday 06 April 2004 16:12, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> It all has to be in one split transaction.  You have AT LEAST FOUR 
> splits:
>> 
>> 1) The stock sale in the stock account      (sale)
>> 2) The stock sale in the cash account       (net)
>> 3) The stock gain in the stock account      (gain)
>> 4) The stock gain in the income account     (gain)
>> 
>> Optionally you can have a commission in the expense account.
>> 
>> sale = net+commission
>> gain = gain
>> 
>> -derek
>> 
>> Faisal Moledina <fmoledina at uwaterloo.ca> writes:
>> 
>> > ok.  i think i was doing thing in the wrong order, trying to force 
> the profit 
>> > before balancing it with the income.  thanks for your help :) .
>> >
>> > fideli
>> >
>> > On April 6, 2004 4:00 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> >> Well, for one thing it's not balanced!  Fix that first.
>> >>
>> >> -derek
>> >
>> >
>> 
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
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