[GNC] How to enter stock trade in a foreign currency

[Chris Grinton]

Do you need to track your cost base in AUD for accounting or tax
purposes, and track a gain/loss on the disposal of USD cash? If so, this is
probably going to look something like the transaction in the attached
screenshot.

Chris

[image: image.png]

On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 at 18:52, Arman Schwarz <armanschwarz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to register a sale of stock denominated in USD but I'm having
> trouble.
>
> Here's what I'm doing:
>
> 1) Go into my stock account, e.g. TSLA, and enter a transaction with the
> "Sell" action, with "Shares" populated with 50, "Price" with 365. This
> immediately creates the following splits:
>
> - Imbalance-AUD (Buy: 18250)
> - Trading:NASDAQ:TSLA (Shares: -50, Price: 365, Buy: 18250)
> - Assets:Shares:TSLA (Shares: -50, Price: 365, Sell: 18250)
> - Trading:CURRENCY:AUD (Sell: 18250)
>
> This is somewhat correct, except that the currency is wrong, since I sold
> the stock in USD. Trying to change the currency to USD just flips it back
> to AUD. I also tried creating a new split with Trading:CURRENCY:USD and
> Sell=18250 but as soon as I hit enter it disappears.
>
> So gnucash clearly wants this transaction to be in AUD. How am I suppose to
> register USD trades?
>
> Thanks in advance!
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