If you care about recording cost bases for your lots, that transaction
below will wipe them out, FYI. You'll end up with a single lot with a cost
basis that's (half, in this example) the "average."
If you do care, you'll have to re-augment (re-"purchase") each lot at the
scaled cost basis. I'm sure this group has examples if you search.
On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:06:38 PM UTC-8 Desi Mas wrote:
> Yeah, it was a problem with multiple lots, so that's why it wouldn't
> balance if I put the price in the new lot (because of the gains) or that no
> lots match if I put the price in lots being sold.
>
> I was able to simply do:
>
> 2004-12-21 * "Autodesk stock splits"
> Assets:US:MSSB:ADSK -100 ADSK {}
> Assets:US:MSSB:ADSK 200 ADSK {}
>
> And added an old date to the new lot to track long term vs short term.
> Thanks all.
> On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 1:43:56 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> 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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