[GNC] non-currency liabilities

[David Carlson]

I meant no requirement to have a positive share balance.  You should be
able to have a negative share balance in a security account.

On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 3:37 AM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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