However, it seems to be lacking in one area. Consider buying and selling stock. I buy $100 of stock, so I transfer $100 from my bank account into a stock account that is using a particular commodity (that I defined). Now suppose that the price of that commodity increases so that my investment is now worth $200. I can now sell the stock by transferring $200 out of that stock account back into my bank account.
And just like that, my books are no longer balanced. Gnucash has allowed me to increase my assets by $100 without recording any income.
I am not sure if I am misunderstanding something. Please set me straight if that is the case. I believe this is an issue and it has come up previously on the list. People say "code to do this is being worked on."
Thus, my question is not to bitch and moan "why isn't it done?". What I'm asking is whether or not it is worth my time to create the accounts and commodities for my investments and record every tiny purchase at various prices. My 401k has me buying various funds at slightly different prices each week, so it's non-trivial to retroactively record these previous purchases. If it allows me to track the value of my portfolio, then it's worth it. But since I can't record any sale of stock, I am concerned that the future code changes to fix that might deprecate the purchase data. (For example, I might have to enter it all over again in a different format or something)
thanks for your time and effort it making Gnucash as good as it is
dan
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