problem in adding a placeholder stock account

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Sunil Shetye <shetye at bombay.retortsoft.com>:

> Quoting from Derek Atkins's mail on Wed, Sep 12, 2007:
>> If it's a placeholder then just make it an Asset account, not a
>> Stock account.   You cannot create a Stock or Mutual fund with
>> a currency.
>
> I had started off with "New Account Heirarchy...", so there is already
> a Stock account of type Stock and currency USD. Now, I am trying to

Yes, this is a bug in the New Account Hierarchy druid.  It shouldn't
let you do that.

> Another minor inconvenience is that when new subaccounts are added to
> the "Stock Test" account, the account type has to be changed to
> "Stock" *before* selecting the security.

Eh, a minor inconvenience.

> Then, maybe, the "New Account Heirarchy..." needs to be corrected to
> avoid confusion.

Yes.  It does.

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-derek

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