I have been struggling to migrate from my ancient (2000) edition of Quicken to Gnucash. The learning curve, for me, has been discouragingly steep. I think I've got a grasp on the cash accounts -- bank accounts, credit cards. But investments, such as a brokerage account, are more challenging.
My current stumbling block is selling specified shares of a mutual fund or stock. To sell shares in Quicken -- even my dusty old version -- the program asks me to choose between average cost basis and lot identification. When I click the "select lots" button, a pop-up box lists all open lots of the security with date and price. I can manually choose which lots (or parts thereof) to sell in this transaction. Or just press a button to automatically select oldest or newest shares, or the ones that will give me minimum or maximum gain. (There is a Help button, but the screen is really self-explanatory.) By contrast, I see no parallel function in Gnucash. I can "View Lots" from the Actions menu, and I can manually aggregate one or more purchases into a named lot. But then what? And the pop-up lots window does not provide crucial per-share cost data that I could potentially sort on to minimize taxable gain. The scrub function, if I read the documentation correction, automates the process only for FIFO accounting. I don't see a way to manually identify the shares I want to sell and have Gnucash calculate the gain or loss, and then mark those lots as no longer available for sale. Neither Section 9.7 of the Gnucash docs, or the wiki nor a search of the mailing list archives seem to have answered my question: Am I missing something? I'm not an active trader, and I may need this function only a couple of times a year, but it would be very disappointing if I have to do something like this manually. (The examples of lots seem to involve a maximum of four transactions, but in an account with years of dollar-cost-averaging purchases and reinvested dividends, over a decade or two the number of transactions can climb into triple digits.) I'm using 3.4 on Windows 10. Thank you, Art _______________________________________________ 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.
