On 8/2/20 8:35 AM, dann frazier wrote: > Thanks David - yeah, negative share balances are possible. But it's > seemingly not possible to track shares in a Liability account.
You can always treat Liabilities as a negative Asset. > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 2:41 AM David Carlson > <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: >> I meant no requirement to have a positive share balance. You should be able >> to have a negative share balance in a security account. >> >> On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 3:37 AM David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> I believe there is no restriction to have a positive number of shares of a >>> security. After all, it is common to sell stock short (Against the box) or >>> not. >>> >>> David Carlson >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 2:48 AM dann frazier <da...@dannf.org> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm trying to figure out the right way to represent a non-currency >>>> debt in gnucash. That is, I'd like to be able to record that I *owe* >>>> 20 shares of FooFund. I thought I'd just create a Mutual Fund >>>> Liability account, but apparently Mutual Funds and Liabilities are >>>> mutually exclusive. Is that restriction by design? >>>> >>>> One of the reasons I want to do this is for a college fund. I'd like >>>> to keep track of the fund value in an account, but also "keep it off >>>> the books" in a sense when it comes to Asset vs. Liability >>>> calculations, as I consider it both something I have and something I >>>> owe. I tried doing this by creating an Asset account and a Liability >>>> account that grow together, and cancel each other out, but I couldn't >>>> get that to work since it won't let me make the Liability a security. >>>> Is there a better way to do this? >>>> >>>> -dann >>>> _______________________________________________ -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 ------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 _______________________________________________ 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.
