Asset Disappeared

[Charles Day]

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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