Assuming you're transferring shares from one brokerage account to
another, I found it best to enter the shares and their original purchase
dates in the destination stock account and the cash used for the
purchase comes from Equity: Opening Balances. This way maintains the
lot purchase dates and doesn't seem to conflict with the brokerage
account opening date.
You could also enter a negative number of shares and the base price in
one stock account and the same (but positive) number of shares and base
price in the destination account.
You won't have much luck trying to credit the stock account directly
from Equity:Opening Balances, because the currencies are different,
"shares" vs. "dollars".
On 6/6/2018 1:57 PM, Graham Balin wrote:
Hi. My first post as a gnu-bie, so please bear with me.
Trying to enter preexisting shares as split transaction, with
commission and tax. [Have searched google /archives without success]
I enter the splits, [as per 9.5.1 of gnucash guide] add a balancing
amount from 'equity:opening balances' and yet I get 'imbalance' and
'orphan-gbp' generated.
Hope the image comes out ok. Any ideas or places to look, gratefully
received
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Cheerio,
Graham
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