Thanks @Ben. It's not terribly common but I just encountered 5 of them so I think I handling them manually for now is fine.
Follow-up question: If you want to compute the IRR how will this work? In my specific case I have an investment in a partnership that generated 5 stock distributions which I then moved to my trading account and then I later sold. I'm not clear on all accounting steps I need to record in beancount to make this work. In order to get the cost basis in the new account I have to transfer some cash over I think and then if I want to compute the IRR for the partnership I'm not sure yet how I would do that. On Friday, September 3, 2021 at 1:45:29 AM UTC+12 [email protected] wrote: > +1 re. Ben's answer. > How many of these do you really do? > > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 2:30 AM Ben Blount <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yeah this is high on my wishlist too. This came up a bunch for crypto >> users as well - you should find some examples if you search for crypto on >> the mailing list. >> >> The workaround is you have to transfer the lots manually, e.g make two >> postings per lot - one to reduce the lot on the old account, then recreate >> it with the original date and cost in the new account. >> direction >> bean-doctor can help you easily get all the lots, you can then copy paste >> to make this a little less fussy. >> >> I'm on mobile or I'd give you examples. >> >> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 22:37 [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I tried searching a bit in the documentation and this forum but not sure >>> how to handle this case and carry forward cost-basis information. Imagine >>> you buy some stock at institution 1 and transfer it to institution 2 and >>> then sell. How should one record all this? I tried the following but I'm >>> getting an error related to no positions found. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jonathan >>> >>> 2015-02-01 open Assets:Invest:ATrade >>> >>> 2015-02-01 open Assets:Invest:ATrade:Cash >>> >>> >>> 2015-04-01 * "Buy some shares of Hooli in April 2015" >>> >>> Assets:Invest:ATrade 25 HOOL {10.00 >>> USD, "first-lot"} >>> >>> Assets:Invest:ATrade:Cash -250 USD >>> >>> >>> >>> 2017-03-01 open Assets:Invest:ZTrade >>> >>> 2017-03-01 open Assets:Invest:ZTrade:Cash >>> >>> >>> 2017-04-01 * "Transfer from ATrade to ZTrade" >>> >>> Assets:Invest:ATrade -25 HOOL >>> >>> Assets:Invest:ZTrade 25 HOOL >>> >>> >>> >>> 2017-05-01 close Assets:Invest:ATrade >>> >>> >>> 2018-05-03 * "Sell some shares of Hooli in May 2018" >>> >>> Assets:Invest:ZTrade -25 HOOL {} @ >>> 22.00 USD >>> >>> Assets:Invest:ZTrade:Cash >>> >>> No position matches "Posting(account='Assets:Invest:ZTrade', units=-25 >>> HOOL, cost=CostSpec(number_per=<class 'beancount.core.number.MISSING'>, >>> number_total=None, currency='USD', date=None, label=None, merge=False), >>> price=22.00 USD, flag=None, meta={'filename': >>> '/Users/jonathan/Documents/Finances/beandata/test.beancount', 'lineno': >>> 22})" against balance (25 HOOL) >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Beancount" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/b3efe67c-a858-4c2c-af6b-26e7444dd9e1n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/b3efe67c-a858-4c2c-af6b-26e7444dd9e1n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Beancount" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CACGEkZtewt_iundhaTt8HZ654SJmNWJYyUHhgEPXx0gk2SfRkQ%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CACGEkZtewt_iundhaTt8HZ654SJmNWJYyUHhgEPXx0gk2SfRkQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/f27d07a7-d27b-4f5b-82c5-5a296578bcb3n%40googlegroups.com.
