Unbalanced balance sheet

[Derek Atkins]

Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jrposting at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Shares Assets:Share    195.91
> Fee    Expenses          4.09
> Shares Assets:Current -200.00
>
> Although curiously the accounts are out of balance at this point by EUR
> 4.10 (not GBP 4.09),
>
> Why is this split causing my accounts to become unbalanced?

What's the purchase price of the shares?  Let's say you bought the
shares for $200 and then sell them for $195.  This is a loss of $5.
But gnucash wont balance properly because you don't have a split to
indicate that this extra $5 went to expenses.

> Jeff

-derek

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