Question on buying new shares (confused)

[Derek Atkins]

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

-derek

Quoting Angela <seasonalplume at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> First of all, this is a fabulous program :D I'm glad there's an easy way for
> it to run on Windows now, it's quite a godsend. I've been using it for a
> while and haven't gotten into much problems (I've been using other similar
> apps on and off before). However this time I have started investing and...
> I'm confused.
>
> I followed this guide:
> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.0/C/gnucash-guide/invest-buy-stock1.html for
> buying new stocks (the bottom image is broken, BTW). I believe I've put it
> all down correctly, as I followed everything almost to the letter (just
> substituting my own numbers). All's good until... I go back out to my
> accounts and I see that the account I transfered from (Assets:Bank ABC in
> the example in the docs) still has the original amount of money in it. Is
> this normal? Is this supposed to happen? I was expecting that the money, er,
> disappears from the bank account.
>
> I'm currently using version 2.2.0, would like to get this sorted out before
> trying an upgrade. :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Angela
>
>
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