[GNC] non-currency liabilities

[David Carlson]

I believe there is no restriction to have a positive number of shares of a
security.  After all, it is common to sell stock short (Against the box) or
not.

David Carlson

On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 2:48 AM dann frazier <dannf at dannf.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   I'm trying to figure out the right way to represent a non-currency
> debt in gnucash. That is, I'd like to be able to record that I *owe*
> 20 shares of FooFund. I thought I'd just create a Mutual Fund
> Liability account, but apparently Mutual Funds and Liabilities are
> mutually exclusive. Is that restriction by design?
>
>   One of the reasons I want to do this is for a college fund. I'd like
> to keep track of the fund value in an account, but also "keep it off
> the books" in a sense when it comes to Asset vs. Liability
> calculations, as I consider it both something I have and something I
> owe. I tried doing this by creating an Asset account and a Liability
> account that grow together, and cancel each other out, but I couldn't
> get that to work since it won't let me make the Liability a security.
> Is there a better way to do this?
>
>   -dann
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David Carlson