[GNC] non-currency liabilities

[dann frazier]

Thanks David - yeah, negative share balances are possible. But it's
seemingly not possible to track shares in a Liability account.

On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 2:41 AM David Carlson
<david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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:
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>> 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.
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>> David Carlson
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>> On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 2:48 AM dann frazier <dannf at dannf.org> wrote:
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>>> 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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