opening balances problem ( USD)

[Derek Atkins]

Well, what's your opening balance transaction look like?  It would only
show up in Eq:O B  if you set that account in the transfer portion of
the transaction.  Can you show a screen shot of your transaction?

-derek

Quoting Nikos Charonitakis <nikosx at gmail.com>:

> On 7/5/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> Mismatched commodities?  You can't have a Stock account denoted in USD.
>> So you didn't set a price on the "buy" transaction.
> i dont have an stock account in USD, just the parent account of the
> usd stock is an asset account in USD (it contains nothing but it shows
> as total the right amount of USD i spent).
>
> Nikos
>
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Quoting Nikos Charonitakis <nikosx at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > I m trying to replicate my broker's statement in GnuCash and i ve
>> > mostly succeeded :)
>> > I have a problem with a transfer in opening balances.
>> > I use Opening Balances and Opening Balances (USD) accounts.
>> > I have some USD as money in the bank and the same amount appears in
>> > Opening Balances (USD).
>> > So far so good. Now i m trying a stock purchase in USD but the amount
>> > of USD i spent refuses to appear in Opening Balances (USD) account.
>> > What i did?
>> > A) created security for the stock and set a price for it.
>> > B) Created an account (Asset) named USstocks in USD with parent
>> > account = investments
>> > C) Created an account (stock) under USstocks
>> > D) recorded the transaction
>> > Now although the right value of the stock appears under the "Total"
>> > column for the USstocks account,
>> > i cant see the amount recorded in the Opening Balances (USD) account.
>> >
>> > Any ideas
>> > thanks in advance
>> > Nikos
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