Selling stock

[John Ralls]

On Mar 29, 2012, at 6:25 AM, David Carlson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was doing it wrong for a long time and now I am trying to go back and
> fix recent sales transactions first.  When I try to add the missing
> lines for capital gains, GnuCash wants to either apply the dollar amount
> that should be in the commodity account to Imbalance-USD if I tab
> repeatedly until I leave the transaction or to adjust the number of
> shares if I use a new line for the additional commodity currency amount.
> Does this only work if completely entered from scratch rather than
> edited in?

I've seen that during an edit. It usually "takes" on the second try: Just fix up the realized gains split and delete the imbalance-usd split.

Regards,
John Ralls