[GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

[David Carlson]

I too am confused now.  IIRC the previous message noted that currency
values were not specifically identified by the currency name when they
appeared in the transaction view, which did seem to be a valid concern,
but this does not mention that.

Now my mail editor will not let me review what this message states, so I am
now thoroughly lost.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 4:30 PM D. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
wrote:

> I feel like we have heard this all before?
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: "Lionel Élie Mamane" <lionel at mamane.lu>
> Sent: Tue Nov 09 05:44:34 EST 2021
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account
>
> I setup a security.
> I create an account of type "Stock" that uses that security, let's say
> assets:investments:foobar
> I open the register for that account
>
> To enter an operation, in column "shares", I enter the number of
> shares. That's clear.
>
> Now, there are columns "price" (which is per-share-price), and columns
> "buy" and "sell" which are the total price of the transaction. What is
> not clear to me, is what currency are these columns in? I didn't make
> a choice for that, and it doesn't seem to be indicated on screen.
>
> There seems to something strange going on, because I enter, in basic
> ledger mode, say:
>
> Date: 09/11/21
> Memo: test purchase
> account: assets:current assets:some bank account
> shares: 5
> Price: 21
>
> then I press tab/tab/tab to validate the entry and go to the next
> line. The "Buy" column is computed and filled in automatically. So far
> so good.
>
> But in the "assets:current assets:some bank account" ledger,
> both splits of that transaction have an empty amount :-|
>
> In assets:investments:foobar, the bank account split has (when I show
> the splits) a "Tot Sell" of 105, that is the 5*21 that I entered.
>
> Thanks in advance for your explanations,
>
> Lionel
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