strange behaviour in stock buy transaction

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

I bet you're in the C locale (or maybe en_US), so your locale currency
is USD, not CAD.   So you're probably hitting this bug:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116353

-derek

Quoting "Hale Boyes, Kevin " <Kevin.HaleBoyes at encana.com>:

> I've been learning more about tracking stock purchases and sales
> in GnuCash and have found something I don't understand.
>
> First some setup:
>    - start GC with --nofile and then create a new file.
>    - choose CAD for currency.
>    - choose Common + Investment accounts with no opening balances.
>    - create new accounts under "Brokerage Account"
>        - type Cash named Cash.
>        - type Stock named SUNW (for which I created a new commodity
>            with fraction 1/100 on the NASDAQ.
>    - move $1000 into "Checking Account" from Equity:Opening Balances.
>
> When I buy stock I tend to transfer money from my chequing account into
> my brokerage account.  Then I buy the stock.  The end price may not use
> up the full amount of cash that I transfered but that is fine as I run
> a positive cash balance in my brokerage account.
>
> So, I transfered $400 from chequing to the new cash account under
> "Brokerage Account" -- Assets:Investments:Brokerage Account:Cash.
> Now the balance shown in that ledger is $400.
>
> Then I buy some shares of SUNW.  So, in the SUNW ledger I enter a
> buy with the offset account being Assets:Investments:Brokerage
> Account:Cash
> and everything looks fine until I look back into the cash account.
> The buy transaction is displayed but the amount fields are blank and
> the balance has not been adjusted and still displays $400.
>
> I expect the balance to have been adjusted for the money I just used
> to buy the stock but maybe there is something that I'm missing.
>
> I've included a couple of screen shots.
> This is happening with 2.0.5 and trunk on FC6.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin.
>
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