[GNC] Selling & Buying Mutual Funds

[David Carlson]

The actions that you described are conceptually correct.

If you open the security account for each of the funds you will see the
number of shares bought or sold in each transaction. Whatever error exists
should be apparent in that view.

On Thu, May 19, 2022, 7:31 PM Jack Frillman via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

>
> My question involves three Mutual funds and their parent account.
> Two of the mutual funds are selling some of their shares and the parent
> fund is buying shares.
>
> Details below:
>
> TROSX - Sell x shares but not all.
> MYSIX - Sell y shares but not all.
> GSFTX - Buy z shares and add to it's existing account.
> IRA-Mutual Funds   -   This is the parent account where the cash balance
> is held.
>
> I tried selling x & y number of shares from TROSX & MYSIX and adding the
> resulting cash into the parent account IRA-Mutual Funds.
> Then I purchase z shares from the available cash in the parent account
> IRA-Mutual Funds. Afterwards the results, specifically the number of
> shares in each account, were not correct.
>
> I have no idea what I did wrong.
>
> What's the proper way of doing this set of transactions?
>
> Thanks,
> Jack
>
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