My entry was backwards; you have the income entry, but you need a cash account to receive the gains. It doesn't belong in the commodity account.
-------- Original Message -------- From: "D. via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Sent: Sun Feb 28 16:02:47 EST 2021 To: Evelyn Yamanaka <evelyn.yaman...@gmail.com> Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] How to enter zero-share transaction splits in an Asset:Stock account? Evelyn, It sounds as if you're trying to enter the currency-denominated entry on the same split as the initial anchor split. In other words, you're putting your capital gain figure on the same split line as your anchor split, which must be in the commodity. Gnucash tries to straighten that out for you. Put the 100 on a separate split line altogether, one which is associated with a currency-denominated account, and see whether that fixes the problem. David -------- Original Message -------- From: Evelyn Yamanaka <evelyn.yaman...@gmail.com> Sent: Sun Feb 28 15:17:42 EST 2021 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] How to enter zero-share transaction splits in an Asset:Stock account? I'm trying to enter a split with zero shares in a stock account for the purpose of manually recording capital gains/losses. I'm using GnuCash 4.4 on Win 10. According to the gnucash-guide documentation: ----- In order for GnuCash to commit the zero-share, zero-price split for account Assets:Stock:SYMBOL to the transaction in the following schemes, you *must* Tab out of that split. If you use the Enter key, GnuCash will convert the split into shares of the commodity ----- However, when I do this, the share and price columns are STILL automatically populated with non-zero amounts. In detail, I am doing this: 1. Click on a new transaction 2. Enter date, <TAB> 3. <TAB> out of [Num] 4. Enter transaction description, <TAB> 5. (Advance to first split) <TAB> out of [Action] 6. Enter split description, <TAB> 7. ([Account] auto-populated with current account) <TAB> out of [Account] 8. <TAB> out of [Shares], leaving it blank 9. <TAB> out of [Price], leaving it blank 10. Enter "100" into [Debit], <TAB> 11. <TAB> out of [Credit] At this point, the next line / split is activated. However, [Shares] from the split I just left is automatically populated with the amount I entered in [Debit]. The same thing happens if I enter a value for [Credit] instead. Essentially, I cannot leave the first split without [Shares] automatically taking the value from either [Credit] or [Debit]. At no point in this process have I hit <Enter>. I know there is the option to use automatic lots to create capital gain/loss transactions. However, I'm recording past SpecID transactions for which individual lot information is not available, and the number and complexity of those transactions make it impractical to reverse engineer specific lot information. Therefore, I'm trying to manually record realized capital gains/losses without assigning them to specific lots. However, the inability to enter zero-share transactions into Asset:Stock accounts is preventing me from doing this. _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
