buying and selling stock : 1.8.12

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sun Jul 16 10:44:42 EDT 2006


The older versions required the gain/loss splits as well in order to
properly account for capital gains and capital losses.  The
documentation explains fairly well how to create them.  Note that if
you don't care about tracking income and expenses properly and only
care about your current assets then you don't need the extra splits.

-derek

Peter Martin <pmartin1438 at wavecable.com> writes:

> My system:
> uname -a
> Linux rotor 2.6.15-25-386 #1 PREEMPT Wed Jun 14 11:25:49 UTC 2006 i686 
> GNU/Linux
>
> Ubuntu 6.06 dapper distro
>
> gnucash 1.8.12-6ubuntu3
>
> This is an upgrade in OS and the resulting gnucash app from the breezy 
> distro which had 1.8.10 something.
>
> I liked the previous version in regards to not needing a split when 
> buying or selling stock.
>
> My setup was:
> assets
> investments
>   |- my stock
>   |    |- stock1
>   |    |- stock2
>   |    |- cash
>   |
>   |- wife's stock
>     same again
>
> I was able to use the cash acct to buy stock and it would register ok, 
> likewise selling. The current version requires these strange splits 
> (after reading the manual I'm still pretty dense! and can't get it done 
> properly) that I don't have accounts for. I was also trying to cancel 
> one time and got into an endless loop with the "you need to expand the 
> transaction in order to modify it's exchange rate" message. 'xkill'ed 
> out of it.
>
> I'll give the unstable version a try, but would really like to backtrack 
> to the 1.8.10 version.
>
> Anyone running dapper know how to do that?
> Thanks
>
> Peter Martin
> Port Orchard, WA US

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