[GNC] Tutorial for moving stock between accounts?

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Jon,

I can't test this right now, since I'm not at my machine...

Try this:

Open your source account. 

Move to the entry point in the register. 

Click the 'Split' button. Enter your description. 

Tab to the Shares field in the first split and type -13.

Tab to the price field and type 0.

Now, use **tab** to move to the Transfer field on the second line, set it to your destination account and tab to shares and type 13.

Does that work?

David T.



On January 2, 2019, at 2:55 PM, Jon Leech <oddhack at sonic.net> wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 10:35:03AM +0000, David T. wrote: > What part of creating a transaction that moves shares from the old account to the new account does not work? It would seem to me that: > Old account decrease 100 shares > New account add shares > Would work just fine. Could you give a bit more detail? The way I know to 'decrease' or 'increase' shares is by Selling or Buying them in a split transaction, which also involves a cash account from which fees or proceeds are handled. But here the shares are moving between accounts, and no cash is involved. Maybe a framework for this is to say that I want to adjust the share count in the two security accounts in much the same way I adjust the cash value in two cash accounts - by moving the underlying commodity (shares or cash, respectively) between them. It might be more clear what I'm trying to accomplish, and why I'm stymied, if I show a couple of screenshots of a failed attempt. Attached src.jpg is of an account containing 33 shares of CEG (let's leave aside that the security no longer exists - this is only for demonstration purposes). dst.jpg shows another account denominated in the same security, and I'd like to transfer 13 of those 33 shares to it. Just to get the share counts correct, it seemed obvious to enter a transaction where I Transfer from the src to dst account, and enter a negative number of shares. This *does* adjust the share count correctly on the src side, but on the dst side (dst.gif) instead of showing a number of *shares* transferred, it shows a 'Buy' of 13.00 and zero resulting shares. I have also attempted to do this with a split, but (a) AFAICT there's no 'Action' in a split that relates to transferring shares between accounts - there are 'Sell', 'Buy', 'Fee', things related to dividends and capital gains, etc. - and (b) it insists on forcing a monetary Price on the transaction which makes the split imbalanced, even though no money whatsoever is involved. So this is why I'm hoping to find an actual detailed example of how to accomplish this transfer in the gnucash framework. I appreciate the responses, but none of it quite seems to speak to the thing I'm trying to accomplish - or I don't yet understand what people are saying I should do. Jon