OP: I perhaps missed your question. I assumed it was about having multiple 
lots, but it might've been about balancing in the single example you 
posted. Anyway, Martin covered that.

On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:27:28 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote:

> To the OP: it will balance because you're matching the closing leg (-100) 
> against existing lots but the opening leg (+200) doesn't need to match 
> anything.
>
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 12:04 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> You're correct, for STRICT, FIFO, LIFO cost basis booking methods. You'd 
>> have to do what you posted for each individual lot in your inventory. 
>> Search this group for how to do it efficiently with bean-doctor context to 
>> list your lots.
>>
>> For the NONE method, beancount will let you do the above, but doesn't 
>> keep track of the lots.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:10:55 AM UTC-8 Desi Mas wrote:
>>
>>> The documentation says to do this:
>>>
>>> 2004-12-21 * "Autodesk stock splits" 
>>> Assets:US:MSSB:ADSK -100 ADSK {66.30 USD}
>>> Assets:US:MSSB:ADSK 200 ADSK {33.15 USD} 
>>>
>>> But how does this balance if the lots presumably have a different cost 
>>> basis?  The error will either be that it doesn't balance, or there are no 
>>> lots at that (updated) price...
>>>
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