Do you need to track your cost base in AUD for accounting or tax purposes, and track a gain/loss on the disposal of USD cash? If so, this is probably going to look something like the transaction in the attached screenshot.
Chris [image: image.png] On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 at 18:52, Arman Schwarz <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to register a sale of stock denominated in USD but I'm having > trouble. > > Here's what I'm doing: > > 1) Go into my stock account, e.g. TSLA, and enter a transaction with the > "Sell" action, with "Shares" populated with 50, "Price" with 365. This > immediately creates the following splits: > > - Imbalance-AUD (Buy: 18250) > - Trading:NASDAQ:TSLA (Shares: -50, Price: 365, Buy: 18250) > - Assets:Shares:TSLA (Shares: -50, Price: 365, Sell: 18250) > - Trading:CURRENCY:AUD (Sell: 18250) > > This is somewhat correct, except that the currency is wrong, since I sold > the stock in USD. Trying to change the currency to USD just flips it back > to AUD. I also tried creating a new split with Trading:CURRENCY:USD and > Sell=18250 but as soon as I hit enter it disappears. > > So gnucash clearly wants this transaction to be in AUD. How am I suppose to > register USD trades? > > Thanks in advance! > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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. >
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