Recording an income which includes shares

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Thank you for your answer, David!

So, this behavior of the Scheduled Transaction Editor is indeed
strange! I do sort of understand why it would want to confirm the
price of a security for a purchase/sell order, as security prices
usually change daily. My specific case where the security price is
updated only once per year must not be encountered often. I've
unchecked the 'Create automatically' checkbox in the "Edit Scheduled
Transaction' window, and could then save it. So yes, that helped!

This got me curious about what would happen in the case the "Get
Online Quote" was configured (and working) for a security? Would this
warning then disappear? I doubt so, but it would make sense, as the
only missing variable (the price) could be retrieved online at the
time the transaction is created. Unfortunately, the online quote
feature is broken on my system (it always returns 'There was a system
error while retrieving the price quotes.', even though the gnc-fq-dump
utility works for the same exchange/security), so I could not test.

For the record, here's the (hopefully) properly formatted transaction:

                     Account                                Charge
    Income
Cash pay        Assets:Checking Account       1300
Shares pay     Assets:RSA                           20 ABC
                     Trading:CURRENCY:USD        200
                     Trading:Stock:ABC                                    20 ABC
                     Income:MyIncome                                     1500

Maxim

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 8:38 PM, David Carlson
<david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can address the part about Scheduled transactions with variables.  I just
> recently filed a bug report because scheduled transactions that contain
> lines involving a security and a currency trigger that warning when the
> transaction is set to be entered automatically even when there is no actual
> purchase or sale in the transaction.  If the transaction is set to remind
> instead of enter automatically, it is accepted by the Since Last Run
> assistant, and it will then appear in the Since Last Run list at the
> appropriate time with a line requesting the user to enter a price for the
> transaction, which may or may not be needed.  The odd thing about that is
> that it does not allow the user to adjust any other value in the transaction
> until after it is entered and appears in the register.
>
> As for the other part, the tabs got scrambled in my mail viewer and I cannot
> tell how you lined up the columns.  However, one line should have "buy"
> "description" Account" "shares", "price" and two "total", but only one (the
> first) is used.  That can only be seen completely when viewed from within
> the security account register.  When viewed from a bank account register,
> the  number of shares and price cannot be seen, even though they are present
> in the transaction.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>
> David C
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd be interested in knowing how to record a pay which is partly composed
>> of a stock.
>>
>> For example, let's say my pay stub says total income is: 1500, and 200$ of
>> this income is actually converted to stock 'ABC'.
>>
>> I want to track the $ amount of my income (1500$), while recording the
>> amount of stock newly received (say 200$ is equal to 20 shares). How would
>> I balance such an income transaction?
>>
>> Right now I have the following split defined in my income account, but I'm
>> not sure if that makes sense at all:
>>
>> *Account                                Charge         Income*Cash
>> pay        Assets:Checking Account      1300
>> Shares pay     Assets:RSA                           20 ABC
>>                      Trading:CURRENCY:USD        200
>>                      Trading:Stock:ABC
>> 20 ABC
>>                      Income:MyIncome
>> 1500
>>
>> Is this OK?
>>
>> Another question I have: I'd like to schedule such a transaction every
>> other week, but the Scheduled Transaction Editor returns the following
>> warning: "Scheduled Transactions with variables cannot be automatically
>> created.". Is there a way to schedule such a transaction ? What variables
>> does it "see" in my split?
>>
>> Thanks in advance, and thanks to everyone implicated in this useful piece
>> of software.
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