Thanks for reporting back, and well expressed. It would be great if you (or Ben or anyone else so inclined) could update two pieces of documentation on this:
1) Beancount official doc is out of date with the code (doesn't include how to retain original dates): https://beancount.github.io/docs/trading_with_beancount.html#stock-splits I'd imagine Martin would be happy give edit access to someone who wants to update it. These are all closely related from a cookbook perspective, IMHO: Stock splits, share class conversions, in-kind transfers: https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/vDX1oA2mJXA/m/e-GridwaAQAJ https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/QqnsgzfMeM4/m/hIJlmWclDAAJ 2) It would be nice to have non-beancount-specific things to go into the plain text wiki: https://github.com/plaintextaccounting/plaintextaccounting/wiki/About-this-wiki On Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 7:32:34 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > Thanks a lot for the quick response! somehow I had assumed that my > transaction syntax was wrong so I had been trying that direction too long, > but now realized that it was about properly recreating the new cost basis > ... > Managed to balance the transaction finally but had to resort to some > (weird to me) operation for the cash-out part - as I had originally three > lots, and they only converted full shares and paid for the fractional left > over, had to figure out what proportion of that fraction had to come from > what lot to correctly get the average price received. > > But for now the error is gone so I'll continue moving my other documents > into the beancount file :) > > Cheers! > > On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 6:21:53 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > >> Hey Zurab - this topic is a pretty frequent one. Take a look at the >> mailing list archives first and then let us know if you're still having >> trouble. >> >> On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 2:43 PM Zurab Sajaia <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I just recently found and started using beancount, and have been having >>> fun converting my old financial records to it. Most of the transaction >>> types I was able to correctly enter and balance but have been unable to >>> figure out what is wrong with one particular item: >>> I'm trying to record a 8:1 split that happened for GE last year. >>> 2021-08-02 * "Reverse Split GE 1 for 8" >>> Assets:Robinhood:GE -37.704432 GE {} @ 12.965 ; three lots with >>> different prices >>> Assets:Robinhood:GE 4 GE {103.72 USD} >>> Assets:Robinhood:Cash 73.96 USD >>> So the 32 old stocks were converted into 4 new, and for the residual of >>> (new) 0.713 the cash was paid out. >>> >>> Now here's the problem, whichever way I tried to turn this transaction >>> I'm not able to balance it, seems like beancount calculates the sale at the >>> cost in the first leg (no matter what price I put after @ it doesn't seem >>> to be used) and therefore says that the transaction is not balanced. >>> >>> What can I be doing wrong? other than having long fractional quantities >>> and prices, everything else (seems to me) is straight out of the docs... >>> any advice would be appreciated! >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Zurab >>> >>> -- >>> 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/f9e995eb-96b1-4eb7-b1ba-7433c8f2451fn%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/f9e995eb-96b1-4eb7-b1ba-7433c8f2451fn%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/f0046a6b-4e10-4295-92c7-0f36c44d3495n%40googlegroups.com.
