[GNC] Return of Capital

[Adrien Monteleone]

cicko,

I confess, while I use trading accounts (for PMs) I don’t track stocks, so maybe I can’t be of help, but what are you expecting the balancing transaction below to be?

I see three splits which appear balanced, one to cash for $500 (presumably debit because it is listed as a positive and this is a return of capital), one to IPE for $500 (credit/debit? presumably debit since it is positive to an asset), another to IPE for $1000 (again, debit/credit? presumably credit since it is negative to an asset)

Where does the other split belong and for how much? Could you not enter all the splits yourself instead of letting GnuCash guess?

If I’m way off base, please excuse the noise.

Regards,
Adrien


> On Apr 17, 2019, at 10:03 AM, cicko <alen.siljak at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to record the recommended transaction as
> 
> 2019-04-01 * Return of capital
>   Assets:Investments:Broker:Cash             500.00 USD
>   Assets:Investments:Broker:Shares:IPE    100 IPE { 5.00 USD} [2000-01-01]
> @ 5.00 USD
>   Assets:Investments:Broker:Shares:IPE   -100 IPE {10.00 USD} [2000-01-01]
> @ 5.00 USD 
> 
> However, GC does not let me do that and reports the transaction as
> unbalanced, even after it adds the balancing split for the Trading Account.