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On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 05:29:05PM -0500, D. via gnucash-user wrote:
> I feel like we have heard this all before? 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: "Lionel Élie Mamane" <lio...@mamane.lu>
> Sent: Tue Nov 09 05:44:34 EST 2021
> To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
> Subject: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account
> 
> I setup a security.
> I create an account of type "Stock" that uses that security, let's say
> assets:investments:foobar
> I open the register for that account
> 
> To enter an operation, in column "shares", I enter the number of
> shares. That's clear.
> 
> Now, there are columns "price" (which is per-share-price), and columns
> "buy" and "sell" which are the total price of the transaction. What is
> not clear to me, is what currency are these columns in? I didn't make
> a choice for that, and it doesn't seem to be indicated on screen.
> 
> There seems to something strange going on, because I enter, in basic
> ledger mode, say:
> 
> Date: 09/11/21
> Memo: test purchase
> account: assets:current assets:some bank account
> shares: 5
> Price: 21
> 
> then I press tab/tab/tab to validate the entry and go to the next
> line. The "Buy" column is computed and filled in automatically. So far
> so good.
> 
> But in the "assets:current assets:some bank account" ledger,
> both splits of that transaction have an empty amount :-|
> 
> In assets:investments:foobar, the bank account split has (when I show
> the splits) a "Tot Sell" of 105, that is the 5*21 that I entered.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your explanations,
> 
> Lionel
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