Entering Preexisting Shares

[Derek Atkins]

--- --- <colonelpenguin at hotmail.com> writes:

> I have a question concerning the entering of pre-existing shares
> covered in 8.5.1 of the documentation.  Since stocks are very liquid I
> think it makes sense to have have the current stock value reflect on
> ones total and current equity.  Instead of specifying the purchase
> price under equity... I would like to show the current worth.  My
> investment value currently updates whenever I get quotes in the price
> editor, but the equity column remains unchanged.  Am I thinking about
> this wrong... or is this a limitation of GNUCash?

Add a column "Value in Report Currency".
That will show you the current value based on the most recent PriceDB
entry.

> Thanks.

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-derek

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