out-of-balance

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting "Todd W." <ttop123 at comcast.net>:

> I have an Income:Capital Gain:Taxable:Short-term for 7.02 and a  
> balancing 7.02 to the Assets:Investments:...:FundName.

Are you sure that the real gain is only $7.02?

> But I'll admit that stock sales confuse me in GnuCash... when I  
> follow the guide's instructions for entering the split transaction in 
>  the account's register, once I "Enter" that transaction, it seems to 
>  result in two entries in an account's register.      Both entries  
> seem to contain the same split detail, but when collapsed, one entry  
> shows the Buy for $7.02 and the other shows the Sell for the number  
> of shares and the price.  This is confusing to me - is this correct  
> behavior?

Yes, you'll see two entries because the register is showing you Splits,
not Transactions.  So, when you have a transaction with two splits into
the same account, that transaction will show up twice.  This is not a
bug, although it might be confusing.

Another question: What Price Source do you use on your balance sheet?
You might want to use the PriceDB source and make sure you have proper
PriceDB entries.

-derek

> On Mar 17, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Please CC Gnucash-user on ALL replies....
>>
>> Quoting "Todd W." <ttop123 at comcast.net>:
>>
>>> Yes, there was a stock sale -- I sold a mutual fund and bought   
>>> another one.  I followed the guide's instructions for entering  the 
>>>  transactions.  Both transactions appear to be balanced.
>>
>> Did you manually add the proper gain/loss splits?
>>
>> -derek
>>
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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