Jon, I can't test this right now, since I'm not at my machine...
Try this: Open your source account. Move to the entry point in the register. Click the 'Split' button. Enter your description. Tab to the Shares field in the first split and type -13. Tab to the price field and type 0. Now, use **tab** to move to the Transfer field on the second line, set it to your destination account and tab to shares and type 13. Does that work? David T. On January 2, 2019, at 2:55 PM, Jon Leech <oddh...@sonic.net> wrote: >On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 10:35:03AM +0000, David T. wrote: > What part of >creating a transaction that moves shares from the old account to the new >account does not work? It would seem to me that: > Old account decrease 100 >shares > New account add shares > Would work just fine. Could you give a bit >more detail? The way I know to 'decrease' or 'increase' shares is by Selling >or Buying them in a split transaction, which also involves a cash account from >which fees or proceeds are handled. But here the shares are moving between >accounts, and no cash is involved. Maybe a framework for this is to say that I >want to adjust the share count in the two security accounts in much the same >way I adjust the cash value in two cash accounts - by moving the underlying >commodity (shares or cash, respectively) between them. It might be more clear >what I'm trying to accomplish, and why I'm stymied, if I show a couple of >screenshots of a failed attempt. Attached src.jpg is of an account containing >33 shares of CEG (let's leave aside that the security no longer exists - this >is only for demonstration purposes). dst.jpg shows another account denominated >in the same security, and I'd like to transfer 13 of those 33 shares to it. >Just to get the share counts correct, it seemed obvious to enter a transaction >where I Transfer from the src to dst account, and enter a negative number of >shares. This *does* adjust the share count correctly on the src side, but on >the dst side (dst.gif) instead of showing a number of *shares* transferred, it >shows a 'Buy' of 13.00 and zero resulting shares. I have also attempted to do >this with a split, but (a) AFAICT there's no 'Action' in a split that relates >to transferring shares between accounts - there are 'Sell', 'Buy', 'Fee', >things related to dividends and capital gains, etc. - and (b) it insists on >forcing a monetary Price on the transaction which makes the split imbalanced, >even though no money whatsoever is involved. So this is why I'm hoping to find >an actual detailed example of how to accomplish this transfer in the gnucash >framework. I appreciate the responses, but none of it quite seems to speak to >the thing I'm trying to accomplish - or I don't yet understand what people are >saying I should do. Jon _______________________________________________ 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.
