Stocks and basis

[Derek Atkins]

Ross Boylan <RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org> writes:

>> > Would this be a significant change to the internal model of the program?
>> 
>> You've just described "Lots"...
> Is lots a feature that exists now?  Can I use it?  Or is this something
> that has been proposed?

Yes and no.  There are Lots in the code, but GnuCash doesn't fully
utilize them at this time.

> Some recent discussion concerned managing invoices and seemed to raise
> similar issues, with people interested in applying payments to certain
> invoices.  However, it seems the invoices do exist; there just aren't
> hooks for picking the ordering.

That's not completely true.  There are hooks for you to select the
FIRST item.  No, you cannot select an arbitrary order.

> That's similar to the problem of selling x shares, and deciding exactly
> which shares you sold.

True....

-derek

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