There may not be any internal technical restrictions preventing you from directly decreasing the share count of a share account, and increasing in another.
However this is pretty much uncharted territory when it comes to reports and reporting assumptions. Typically I'd expect someone who tries to move shares between brokers to be liquidating their brokerage account, record any capital gains or losses, and immediately buy shares in the other account. Any inaccuracies in any reports will be dealt with under caveat emptor rules :) On Wed., 2 Jan. 2019, 17:25 Jon Leech <oddh...@sonic.net wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 10:35:03AM +0000, David T. wrote: > > What part of creating a transaction that moves shares from the old > account to the new account does not work? It would seem to me that: > > Old account decrease 100 shares > > New account add shares > > Would work just fine. > > Could you give a bit more detail? The way I know to 'decrease' or > 'increase' shares is by Selling or Buying them in a split transaction, > which also involves a cash account from which fees or proceeds are > handled. But here the shares are moving between accounts, and no cash is > involved. > > Maybe a framework for this is to say that I want to adjust the share > count in the two security accounts in much the same way I adjust the > cash value in two cash accounts - by moving the underlying commodity > (shares or cash, respectively) between them. > > It might be more clear what I'm trying to accomplish, and why I'm > stymied, if I show a couple of screenshots of a failed attempt. Attached > src.jpg is of an account containing 33 shares of CEG (let's leave aside > that the security no longer exists - this is only for demonstration > purposes). dst.jpg shows another account denominated in the same > security, and I'd like to transfer 13 of those 33 shares to it. > > Just to get the share counts correct, it seemed obvious to enter a > transaction where I Transfer from the src to dst account, and enter a > negative number of shares. This *does* adjust the share count correctly > on the src side, but on the dst side (dst.gif) instead of showing a > number of *shares* transferred, it shows a 'Buy' of 13.00 and zero > resulting shares. > > I have also attempted to do this with a split, but (a) AFAICT > there's no 'Action' in a split that relates to transferring shares > between accounts - there are 'Sell', 'Buy', 'Fee', things related to > dividends and capital gains, etc. - and (b) it insists on forcing a > monetary Price on the transaction which makes the split imbalanced, even > though no money whatsoever is involved. > > So this is why I'm hoping to find an actual detailed example of how > to accomplish this transfer in the gnucash framework. I appreciate the > responses, but none of it quite seems to speak to the thing I'm trying > to accomplish - or I don't yet understand what people are saying I > should do. > > Jon > _______________________________________________ > 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.
