Handling Investment Switch

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 11, 2015, at 7:46 PM, venkatadri kr <venkatadri_kr at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Thanks a lot John. It is working correctly now.
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Excellent, but please do remember to copy the list on all replies.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Thursday, November 12, 2015 6:23 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Nov 11, 2015, at 9:55 AM, venkatadri kr <venkatadri_kr at yahoo.com <mailto:venkatadri_kr at yahoo.com>> wrote:
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>> Thanks John for your quick response. I tried this, but it is doing the following
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>> a) the units of the mutual fund are taken in properly
>> b)  it is not picking up the value of the scrip (even though it is added in the price editor)
>> c) It is adding another two rows of trading : Fund : Scrip a and b  and balancing the units
>> d) It is taking one entry in the trading : Currency and corresponding showing an imabalance. This value is the difference between the number of units between the two scrips
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> You didn’t say that you’re using trading accounts. Perhaps if they confuse you you shouldn’t, but what you describe is correct.
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> The important thing here is that there should be no currency involved. Make sure that the price and debit/credit (or Tot Buy/Tot Sell) entries are blank on both splits. You must explicitly delete the “1” that GnuCash sticks in the Price column as a default value. GnuCash will stick a value in the “Tot Sell” entry in the transaction line, you can ignore that.
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> The price editor isn’t involved in this at all. Since both funds are non-currency commodities the price editor won’t even record the rate between them.
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> Here’s a screenshot showing the finished transaction with trading accounts:
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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