Help selling mutual fund

[Donald Allen]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Simon West <s.d.c.west at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having difficulty recording a mutual fund sale in Gnucash 2.2.9. I was
> able to follow the instructions in Section 8.7 of the online manual (
> http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/invest-sell1.html). When I look in the
> Assets:Bank ledger, I find a line with "--Split Transaction--" as the
> description, but no money actually transferred, i.e. the balance is
> unchanged. Same thing for the Income:Capital Gains account. So although all
> the transfers look correct in the mutual fund account, the proceeds from the
> sale seem to vanish into thin air.
>
> I must be doing something wrong but am having trouble working out what; any
> advice would be greatly appreciated.


Recording sales of mutual funds and stocks is harder to describe than to do,
once you get the hang of it.

The best way to get help from this list would be to send a representation of
all the splits in the problem transaction (open the mutual-fund account in a
register, select the transaction in question and click the 'Split' button
and either send a screen-shot or type in the information), perhaps changing
anything that is private, so long as it doesn't obscure the problem you are
trying to solve.

/Don


>
>
> Thanks,
> -Simon West
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