[GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

[cicko]

Hi, Harry,

What I do is simply create a transaction which subtracts shares from one
accounts and puts them into the other. 
This, of course, does not track the original prices. For that you'd need to
do something similar to what scrubbing does. Note that I don't use scrubbing
as I found it makes things worse for me rather than better. To my
understanding, scrubbing will work at all only if you sell. It will then
match the sold split(s) to the purchased split(s). However, if you buy 10
units twice (10 + 10) at different prices, and then sell (or move) 15 at
once, I don't GnuCash will help you much in keeping track of original
purchase prices for the lot.

In that regard, I'm also interested in what others are doing. For those rare
cases when I do sell, I created a Python script that performs "scrubbing"
in-memory and calculates the original prices for the lots but does not write
anything to the book. Then I can create transactions manually to reflect the
real life. I actually use it mostly for the accurate calculation of the
average purchase price as it takes into account only the prices for the
shares I actually own, assuming FIFO, of course.



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