Thank you! It seems pretty obvious now... sorry for the dumb question!

If they had decided to sell only 50% of the commodity, what would have been 
the best way to handle it in my ledger? Use a total match to sell 
everything and buy back 50% of that commodity?
Le lundi 18 décembre 2023 à 20:59:53 UTC-5, bl...@furius.ca a écrit :

> When you sell something you need to account for P/L. 
> You're missing an account posting for that P/L, the amount of which can be 
> left to be automatically calculated by Beancount, for that $124.46
>
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 8:57 PM Damien R. <damien...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an investment in a mutual fund that has been converted from one 
>> commodity to another. I'm trying to represent that in my ledger with a sale 
>> of the first commodity (it's a total match sale as everything is sold) and 
>> then a buy of the second one (that's how it appears on the statement):
>>
>>     2023-06-21 * "Selling Commodity A"
>>        Assets:CA:Broker:COMMA  -3151.6173 COMMA {} @ 9.361 CAD
>>        Assets:CA:Broker:Cash       29502.29 CAD
>>
>> Bean-check gives the following error:
>>
>>     Transaction does not balance: (124.4641276 CAD)
>>
>> I tried changing the tolerance for that commodity to 0.0001 but no luck 
>> with that. Any idea what is going on and what I should to to address it?
>>
>> As I'm dealing with mutual fund issues right now, I'll piggy back on my 
>> first question and ask what's the state of the average booking method? From 
>> my understanding it's still not supported and from the documentation I 
>> couldn't find how I should deal with partial sales, if I want to sale 50% 
>> of one commodity for instance.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Damien
>>
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