accounting absent from cash accounts on stock buys

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat Feb 20 11:24:56 EST 2010


cognitive.libertarian+ml at gmail.com writes:

> After entering a stock purchase, the cash account that the purchase
> draws from is not properly reflecting a decrease.  A row appears in
> the cash account, but both the "Increase" and "Decrease" columns are
> automatically blank.
>
> When trying to correct this manually by entering the cost basis in the
> "decrease" cell, the error: 
>
>   "You need to expand the transaction in order to modify its exchange
>    rates"
>
> What can be done to make the cash register properly reflect the cash
> balance after a stock transaction?
>
> Could this issue by caused by having the stock account as a subaccount
> of the cash account?

Only if the currency of the parent of the stock account is different
than the currency of the cash account.  It sounds like the stock parent
currency does not match the currency you're trying to use.

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-derek

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