[GNC] Help Selling & Buying Securities

[David Carlson]

Jack,

If you follow the help manual reference given by Eric earlier (
https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/invest-buy-stock1.html) and
continue forward to the section on stock sales there is a lot of
information there which should help you.  The issue of capturing realized
gains is a complex one with more than one solution, but you can defer that
decision until after you are comfortable with the basic transactions.

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 9:28 AM Fred Bone <Fred at mandfb.me.uk> wrote:

> On 10 August 2021 at 10:01, Jack Frillman said:
>
> > I sort of got it to work but my cash balance is all messed up.
> > See attached for the example of my transactions.
> >
> > In the parent account the cash Balance should be $1,115.05 not $4,676.09
> > and I can't figure out why.
> >
> > Where did I mess up?
>
> Hard to say without knowing what the txns actually were. What you have
> told Gnucash is:
>
> - you had 1115.05 on 7/21
> - you sold some Midcap Fund for 5213.04 on 8/10
> - you bought some Mid Cap Value for 1652.00 on 8/10
>
> which leaves a balance of 4676.09, as shown.
>
> Presumably you have entered the wrong value for either the sale or the
> purchase txns, but only you can tell which.
>
>
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David Carlson