Investment register

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting David Buck <dbuck at nf.sympatico.ca>:

> Description	Transfer R	Shares	Price	Debit Credit Balance
> Opening Bal.	Inv. Brokr.	4000	.0895	358.00	     4000.00

This shows you bought 4000 shares at .0895/share for a total price of 358.

> The appropriate amount of 358.00 has been taken from my Brok. Acct.
> the value for the asset on my General Ledger shows up as 4000 CQV
> and the value of the Investment Account is still 0.00.

That's because it's not converting 4000 CQV to 358 USD.

> I don't understand how or why the balance is shown as 4000.00. Is this
> the correct result I should be getting or is there some setting that I
> have missed. I would have thought the balance would be the running total
> of the dollar value of the stock.

Because the account is in CQV, and it's showing that you have 4000 shares.
That's exactly correct.

> Any help would be appreciated

I don't know what help you need...  Gnucash is functioning properly.
Are you hoping that the account tree will convert the value up?  If
so, then you should add the "Total in Report Currency" column to the
account tree and then make sure you've got a PriceDB entry for the stock
price.

-derek

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