Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-06 Thread Harry Foerster
transfers can be done on the remaining lots. -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of D via gnucash-user Sent: February 6, 2019 7:38 AM To: alen siljak@gmx. com ; Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account On February 6

Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-06 Thread D via gnucash-user
On February 6, 2019, at 2:10 PM, cicko wrote: >Hi, Harry, >What I do is simply create a transaction which subtracts shares from one >accounts and puts them into the other. >This, of course, does not track the original prices. For that you'd need to >do something similar to what scrubbing

Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-06 Thread cicko
Hi, Harry, What I do is simply create a transaction which subtracts shares from one accounts and puts them into the other. This, of course, does not track the original prices. For that you'd need to do something similar to what scrubbing does. Note that I don't use scrubbing as I found it makes

Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-05 Thread David Cousens
Harry, The procedures associated with buying and selling Stock in the Guide https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/invest-buy-stock1.html https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/invest-stockprice1.html https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/invest-sell1.html aprticularly

Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-05 Thread David Carlson
On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 10:17 AM Harry Foerster wrote: > It seems this email request has gone sideways a bit. > > The actual transactions are being handled by the financial institutions > accordingly and reported to me in statements. I fully believe their > accountants are following the proper

Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-05 Thread Harry Foerster
-user On Behalf Of Michael or Penny Novack Sent: February 5, 2019 8:58 AM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account On 2/4/2019 8:09 PM, David Carlson wrote: > If you are in the US and both funds are within the s

Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/4/2019 8:09 PM, David Carlson wrote: If you are in the US and both funds are within the same custodial account the answer is trivial, just sell one and buy the other. It only matters when you withdraw cash. If you are somehow moving shares from one custodian to another, that is more

Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-04 Thread Christopher Lam
Feel free to experiment your transactions; I'd recommend doing a simplified transfer on a simple data file first and testing the output. Please test the portfolio and advanced portfolio reports because they may not handle these types of transfers, and file bugs on bugzilla if the reports produce

Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-04 Thread David Carlson
If you are in the US and both funds are within the same custodial account the answer is trivial, just sell one and buy the other. It only matters when you withdraw cash. If you are somehow moving shares from one custodian to another, that is more complicated. If they are non-custodial accounts

[GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-04 Thread Harry Foerster
Hello I'm a recent user of Gnucash coming over from the Quicken world. I would like to get some guidance on how to properly transfer a portion of a mutual fund total units in account X into another mutual fund account Y. The transferred units from account X are taken out on a FIFO basis and