Stock spinoff

[Charles Day]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I know I'm using an old version fo Gnucash [2.2.4 which is what Ubuntu
> supplies for release 8.04], but I'ld like to know if the following is fixed
> in the latest release.
>
> I have a stock account with a certain number of shares and a value [basis].
>  The stock spins off some shares of another company without changing the
> number of shares in the original company. The account register for the
> original company shows that value is decreased [Sell] by the value of the
> new shares, but the balance sheet does not reflect this new reduced basis
> [clearly a bug].
>

I can't think of any bug report (or bug fix) that mentions this situation.
Could you show your transaction so we can see the splits? (Or make up a
similar example.)

Cheers,
Charles


> Thanks for help.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
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