Question on buying new shares (confused)

[Angela]

On 9/27/07, Hale Boyes, Kevin <Kevin.HaleBoyes at encana.com> wrote:
>
> Angela wrote:
> > 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 pretty sure it is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116353
> I had one point thought of fixing this bug but I couldn't come up with
> a very good solution and then ran out of time.  This issue does pop
> up fairly regularly on this list though.


Oh, I see! Hmm. This does sound fairly problematic. I haven't saved GnuCash
yet in fear that I won't be able to fix the amounts later once the fix is
available. Or do you think it should be alright to save for now? I get
nightmares about unbalanced sheets whenever I use these tools :P

My work around is to set the LC_MONETARY environment variable properly
> before I run GnuCash.  Sorry I don't know how to do this on Windows.
> When I'm entering trades that go against a CAD cash account I run GC as:
>
> LC_MONETARY=en_CA /usr/bin/gnucash file
>
> and against a USD cash account:
>
> LC_MONETARY=en_US /usr/bin/gnucash file


I wish I could say I understood that, but I didn't. I haven't worked with
Java for such a long time now either.

If I would do this manually, what would I have to do? Transfer, say, $5000
to what account? Or will that make things worse later on? I'm toying with
the idea of temporarily transferring funds to a dummy asset account and
using the dummy asset account for the stocks so that at least I know the
correct amount in my bank account -- but would this bring on more problems
than I know?

Thanks!

xx A


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