Asset Disappeared

[Matt McCormick]

Never mind about this.

Instead of breaking out the stocks by brokerage, I just created an Asset
Account called stocks and moved them all there.  This solved the problem and
I much prefer the view as well.

Thanks for your help.

On 02/07/2008, Matt McCormick <mattmccor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I looked at your attachment but perhaps the problem comes from the
> automatic stock quotes.  Maybe only one of the accounts gets updated.
>
> Anyways, the transactions are:
>
> In Brokerage Account 1 - I bought 10 shares of the stock on Jan 9, 15
> shares on March 3 and 13 shares on March 17.
>
> Then in Brokerage Account 2 - I bought 1 share on March 7 and then received
> a dividend which was automatically re-invested on May 30.
>
> If I delete the two transactions from Brokerage Account 2 for this stock,
> then the Balance Sheet, Assets, and Net Worth charts return to normal.
> However, if I have transactions under Brokerage Account 2 for this stock,
> the stock shows a blank value on the Balance sheet (for any date after the
> transaction date) and total Assets also show just '$'
>
> On 30/06/2008, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Matt McCormick <mattmccor at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, I've isolated the problem more.
>>>
>>> It seems to be happening because I have the same stock held in two
>>> different
>>> brokerage accounts.  If I delete the transaction when I purchased it in
>>> the
>>> second account, the Balance Sheet and Net Worth returns to normal.  When
>>> I
>>> put it back in, the same problem occurs.
>>>
>>> Any suggestion for how to get around this?
>>>
>>
>> Can't say I know where your problem comes from, but owning the same stock
>> in two different brokerage accounts worked OK for me. See the "2brokers"
>> attachment on the "Unrealized Gains" thread from a few hours ago.
>>
>> Maybe you could reply with the details of your transaction that makes the
>> problem appear?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Charles
>>
>> I would prefer to record transactions in the account they occured but,
>>> worst
>>> case, I could just put the stocks under the same account and make a note
>>> of
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> On 28/06/2008, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I can only guess.  I am not qualified and the symptoms don't really
>>> > help.  But
>>> > my guess is that your file got somehow corrupted last April.
>>> >
>>> > Doug L.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Saturday 28 June 2008 12:31:18 pm Matt McCormick wrote:
>>> > > I should keep my eyes open then.
>>> > >
>>> > > Any suggestions for Gnucash?
>>> > >
>>> > > On 25/06/2008, Andrew Greig <algreig at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>> > > > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 10:16 +0800, Matt McCormick wrote:
>>> > > > > I've been using Gnucash for over a year now and it is great.
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > Just recently though something stranged happened.  One of my
>>> stocks
>>> > > > > shows
>>> > > >
>>> > > > up
>>> > > >
>>> > > > > as blank on my Balance Sheet and that is causing the total of my
>>> > assets
>>> > > >
>>> > > > to
>>> > > >
>>> > > > > show as blank as well (I think that is the cause).  If I look at
>>> my
>>> > Net
>>> > > > > Worth barchart, everything looks fine until April 2008 when
>>> suddenly
>>> > it
>>> > > > > shows as if I had no assets.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > There is a known bug in GnuCash called the "Mafia Bug".  It reduces
>>> > your
>>> > > > assets to zero when it becomes known that a contract is taken out
>>> on
>>> > the
>>> > > > user.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > (apologies)
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Andrew Greig
>>> > > >
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