old stock, new gnucash stock account -- what action should I select in NUM field?

[David T.]

Mike--

It doesn't matter. The field is actually a free text field, and you can add anything you want to it. If I bothered, I'd probably put something like OPEN (for opening balance). Or, you might use SHRSIN (for shares in). For more, check out 4.2.3 of the Tutorial and Concepts guide (http://code.gnucash.org/docs/guide/txns-registers1.html).


My guess on the entries is:

Buy - Shares bought

Dist - Shares distributed
Dividend, Fee, Income, Interest  - obvious
LTCG - Long Term Capital Gains
Price, Sell, Split  - obvious
STCG - Short Term Capital Gains

David



________________________________
 From: Michael Carney <mwc-250sav at att.net>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 3:15 PM
Subject: old stock, new gnucash stock account -- what action should I select in NUM field?
 
Greetings,

I've got a number of shares of stock, and I'd like to create a gnucash account to keep track of them. Adding the stock was easy, as was the stock's current value. What 'action' should I select to reflect my starting number of shares? Choices are Buy, Dist, Dividend, Fee, Income, Interest, LTCG, Price, Sell, Split, STCG. There doesn't appear to be documentation describing these values and their purpose, although some are obvious. I'm using Equity:opening Balances for Transfer.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks,
Mike
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