return of capital

[Derek Atkins]

R W <rpw101ml at yahoo.com.au> writes:

> It seems to me that I need to enter a transfer from
> Assetts:Stocks:ENV to Assetts:Bank of $30.  This
> transfer needs to decrease the cash balance of
> Assetts:Stocks:ENV without decreasing the number of 
> shares.  However I couldnt see how to get the program
> to accept this.  I would have thought it was the
> equivelant of selling 0 shares for $30 but gnucash
> seemed unhappy with this and kept telling me I had an
> unbalanced transaction.  
>
> Any clues?  I've been using gnucash for exactly one
> day so dont assume anything  :-)

Indeed, this is what you need to do.  What version of GnuCash are you
using?  Earlier versions did not accept this.  More recent versions
should.

-derek
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