Selling stock

[Mike C.]

I don't know if it helps or adds complication, but I enter the sales
shares and price and transfer account and enter that transaction.  Then
I go to the "view lots" and scrub the account.  This then adds a
transaction for the gain or loss but you have to go back to the register
and change the gain/loss account to the correct account for short term
cap gains/long term cap gains.
Mike

On 3/29/2012 9:00 AM, John Ralls wrote:
> 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
>
>
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