Hello Gnucash Users, I've been using Gnucash for a while and I'm starting to feel like an accountant. :) Anyway, I've been interested in trying to map out employee stock option grants for a while to form a more complete financial view of all my investments.
I finally took a stab at it using the "stock" account type. It works really well to calculate the "real time" value of a number of shares. However, I realized quickly that I can't fathom a way to capture the strike price of the options (price to buy them at). This is a fixed value with which I purchase the shares from the company and needs to be subtracted from the "real time" price to get the actual gain at any given point in time. I'm thinking I could just calculate the strike price as a fixed credit to the same account that the stocks are in but the problem with this is that the balance may go negative if the "real time" price of the shares drops below the strike price. In reality this means my gain/loss is zero and I just can't exercise those options for a gain. Anyway, I'm guessing that most people who track their employee stock option grants probably don't track the actual shares that they hold. They probably only enter something into Gnucash when they perform a cashless execution. I'd like to be able to *see* my potential gains for shares that are "in the money", so to speak. If anyone has a suggestion, I'm all ears. Thanks, -Greg _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
