Hi Tuomas,
I don't understand your terminology.
"Marking" is the process of valuing active positions for the purpose of
calculation unrealized P/L.
I think you mean "exercise."
On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 6:49 AM Tuomas Salmi <salmi.tuo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Recently my employer let me to mark some stock options I had and I'm
> having trouble to add them properly to the Beancount ledger.
>
> Lets say I had 10 options letting me to buy 10 stocks of COMPANY. Looks
> like the transaction will be made first to my incentive bank account and
> then I'll transfer the bought stocks to my actual bank which holds my
> stocks.
>
> I tried the following:
>
> 2021-03-31 * "Mark options"
> Assets:OP:BankAccount -61.90 EUR
> Assets:IncentiveBankAccount:Company 10 COMPANY {6.19 EUR}
>
> 2021-04-01 * "Transfer stocks to other bank account"
> Assets:IncentiveBankAccount:Company -10
> COMPANY
> Assets:OtherBank:Company 10 COMPANY
>
> The beancheck accepts this syntax. However when I check the account
> balances in the Fava, I see that the end balance for "IncentiveBankAccount"
> is:
> 61.90 EUR
> -10 COMPANY
>
> So it seems like the Beancount will use two separate units for the
> "IncentiveBankAccount".
>
You need to use the cost basis on your transfer.
Your transactions seems incomplete to me.
You will want to represent the options themselves using a unique instrument
name with the strike, side (put/call) and expiration data embedded in the
symbol.
You will want to carefully adjust the sales price vs. cost basis and
recognize the P/L to the right account if this is a company incentive (I
believe the initial P/L may be treated as income tax, not gains).
There is much to say.
>
> So how should I mark the following transactions to get all this sorted out:
> 1. Pay 61.90 EUR from my cash bank account to buy 10 COMPANY stocks to
> IncentiveBankAccount account (balance -> 10 COMPANY)
> 2. Move 10 COMPANY from IncentiveBankAccount to OtherBank:Company (balance
> 10 -> 0 COMPANY in incentive)
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