Yes, sorry, my first message got held for moderation because it was sent from a different email address than the one I subscribed as, so I resent it from the "correct" email address, but forgot to cancel the first held up post.
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 05:29:05PM -0500, D. via gnucash-user wrote: > I feel like we have heard this all before? > > > -------- Original Message -------- > From: "Lionel Élie Mamane" <lio...@mamane.lu> > Sent: Tue Nov 09 05:44:34 EST 2021 > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account > > I setup a security. > I create an account of type "Stock" that uses that security, let's say > assets:investments:foobar > I open the register for that account > > To enter an operation, in column "shares", I enter the number of > shares. That's clear. > > Now, there are columns "price" (which is per-share-price), and columns > "buy" and "sell" which are the total price of the transaction. What is > not clear to me, is what currency are these columns in? I didn't make > a choice for that, and it doesn't seem to be indicated on screen. > > There seems to something strange going on, because I enter, in basic > ledger mode, say: > > Date: 09/11/21 > Memo: test purchase > account: assets:current assets:some bank account > shares: 5 > Price: 21 > > then I press tab/tab/tab to validate the entry and go to the next > line. The "Buy" column is computed and filled in automatically. So far > so good. > > But in the "assets:current assets:some bank account" ledger, > both splits of that transaction have an empty amount :-| > > In assets:investments:foobar, the bank account split has (when I show > the splits) a "Tot Sell" of 105, that is the 5*21 that I entered. > > Thanks in advance for your explanations, > > Lionel > _______________________________________________ > 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.
