On 04 July 2023 at 16:29, AC said: > I recently moved some mutual funds from one brokerage to another. The > process did not involve a sale, it was just a transfer of control from the > old to the new. > > In my current books I keep mutual funds listed as subaccount under each > brokerage as such with their respective security/currency: > > Investments > -Brokerage 1 (currency) > --Fund A (security A) > --Fund B (security B) > -Brokerage 2 (currency) > --Fund A (security A) > --Fund C (security C) > --Fund D (security D) > > I wanted to expand this to add the new brokerage and then perform a > transfer of the funds from one to the other. Let's assume I moved the > funds under Brokerage 1 to Brokerage 3. So the tree would look like the > simplified version below (leaving out Brokerage 2 as it is unaffected): > > Investments > -Brokerage 1 (currency) > --Fund A (security A) > --Fund B (security B) > -Brokerage 3 (currency) > --Fund A (security A) > --Fund B (security B) > > The securities are the same because it's the same original mutual funds, > just moved to another brokerage. The tree would be left intact with the > funds under Brokerage 1 being zeroed out and the funds under Brokerage 3 > starting off with the incoming values. > > My natural tendency was to create a transfer directly within Brokerage 1 > Fund A that moved all the shares over to Brokerage 3 Fund A but that > didn't create the transaction I expected. > > By example, I transferred Fund A on July 1 which contained 10 shares at > the price of the shares on that day. So in Brokerage 1 I entered -10 > shares with a total sell price of X as listed on the statement from > Brokerage 1. The price is autocalculated and the balance correctly goes to > zero. > > Looking inside the Brokerage 3 Fund A account I only see a transaction > that has an amount in the buy column but no shares and a balance of zero. > I can manually enter the same number of shares in that partially empty > transaction but why was my thought about the transfer incorrect? Should it > have not transferred those shares over as well?
Did you work in split view? I can replicate what I think you are saying if I don't enter the separate splits. If I go about it the obvious way (in split view) and enter balancing amounts then it all works. However, I'm still on 2.6.21 ... _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
