[GNC] Sale of stock using Lots

[Fred Tydeman]

Responses inline.
I found more online documentation after I posted my query.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2026 at 8:57 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

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> On Jan 4, 2026, at 08:29, Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Should one remove Commission splits before doing the above?
> Is one really supposed to be able to pick any account in the stock
> assistant for where the cash proceeds will go?
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> No (but you’re still paying commissions?).
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https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual/tool-lots.html
9.7.2.8. Considerations
mentions commissions.
I infer that commissions and fees should be removed and netted into sale
price.

The "commissions" in my file are due to import of Quicken QIF where they
are
due to limited share price precision (in Quicken), so result in rounding
errors.

I am not really paying commissions.


> No. Proceeds must be an Asset account. In nearly all cases it’s going to
> be the broker account that’s the parent of the stock account or a currency
> sub account of the broker account, but GnuCash doesn’t require that.
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Agreed, it must be an Asset account.
I tried to pick the cash account at the brokerage, but could not.
I also tried to type in the cash account and it would not take it.
After the transaction was created, I manually fixed the proceeds account.