plugin "beancount.plugins.auto"
2019-01-01 * "Receive free tulips"
Income:Gifts
Assets:Investments:Tulips 12 TLP {0 USD}
2019-01-02 * "Convert TLP to USD"
Assets:Investments:Tulips -12 TLP {0 USD} @@ 5 USD
Assets:Investments:Cash 5.00 USD
Income:Tulips -5.00 USD
On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 6:51 PM MP <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Note: Assets, accounts, amounts and dates have been changed for privacy.
>
> Let's say I receive some tulips for free. However, the tulip market is doing
> pretty well, so I then sell those tulips at their market price.
>
> The way I have been recording this in my Beancount file is:
>
>
> 2019-01-01 * "Receive free tulips"
> Income:Gifts
> Assets:Investments:Tulips 12 TLP {0 USD}
>
> 2019-01-02 * "Convert TLP to USD"
> Assets:Investments:Tulips -12 TLP {0 USD} @@ 5 USD
> Assets:Investments:Cash 5 USD
>
> The second transaction yields an error saying that it does not balance.
>
> The reason I have been recording transactions this way is so that Fava always
> displays TLP in terms of USD. If I leave out the {0 USD} cost basis, then
> FAVA will not display my TLP holdings in terms of USD.
>
> What is the correct way of handling this situation? Or do I just have to suck
> up the fact that without a USD cost basis, my TLP won't be shown in terms of
> USD on Fava?
>
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