Money from stock sale not tranferring to "transfer account"

[Derek Atkins]

Stephan Pouh <smpouh at gmx.at> writes:

> I am using Gnucash for quite some time (3yrs) now and getting used to it bit 
> by bit. One of the things that still throws me off, besides the fact that 
> most features work flawlessly for me is the fact that stock sales sometimes 
> do not balance. I experienced this problem again with some INTC Stock which I 
> keep as a stock in a brokerage account. It lloks something like this:
>
> Assets (ASSET)
>  - Investments (ASSET)
>   - US (ASSET)
>    - INTC (the account) (BANK)
>     - Intel (the stock) (STOCK)

What are the commodities of each of these accounts?

> Since I have discussed something similar with Derek I made sure to use the US 
> locale with both the account and the stock being USD.
>
> Now, I sold the stock, the transfer account being INTC. The stock sells fine, 
> the sum is correct, however, the money never arrives in INTC. The transaction 
> in INTC is empty. The transaction in Intel shows the sums correctly.

Which account register do you have open when you enter the txn?

> Here comes the strange part. I moved the INTC account upwards like this:
> Assets
>  - INTC (the account)
>   - Intel (the stock)
>
> At that time it still doesn't work, but if you delete the sale and do it again 
> it works fine and the sale's income goes from Intel to in INTC. The accounts 
> balance (although I am not sure whether this is the right term).

How are you testing "account balance"?

> At this point in time I moved the account back down - still everything is 
> fine.
>
> Here are the questions:
> What am I doing wrong?

I'm not sure.

> Is this a bug? A feature?

Most likely a bug, but I don't know for sure.

> Will this interesting behavior be fixed in the future?

Hopefully. ;)

-derek

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