opening balances problem ( USD)

[Nikos Charonitakis]

On 7/5/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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?
sure
first screen (stock account): i enter 100 shares for the price of 23.66 usd
second screen (opening balance USD): we can see that balance remains
the same. 24103 USD in the bank and nothing recorded related to my
stock purchase...
>
> -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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