On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 8:54 AM Damien R. <damien.rie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le lundi 18 décembre 2023 à 22:03:43 UTC-5, bl...@furius.ca a écrit :
>
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 9:25 PM Damien R. <damien...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you! It seems pretty obvious now... sorry for the dumb question!
>
>
> There are no dumb questions. Nothing to feel sorry about.
>
>
>
> If they had decided to sell only 50% of the commodity, what would have
> been the best way to handle it in my ledger? Use a total match to sell
> everything and buy back 50% of that commodity?
>
>
> No.
> You would have declared selling -3151.6173/2 units of COMMA @ 9.361 CAD,
> the cash would be correspondingly half, and the inferred P/L would be half
> as well.
>
>
> I did a few tries and when selling only part of the commodity, I get
> "ambiguous matches". I get that if I don't specify the cost basis beancount
> is not able to match the lot I want to sale, so I really don't know how I
> would write "sell 1000 COMMA, get 9361 in cash" in the context of a mutual
> fund.
>
Can you run "bean-doctor context" around that transaction? It's possible I
put a heuristic on the total amount to be matched.
>
>
> Le lundi 18 décembre 2023 à 20:59:53 UTC-5, bl...@furius.ca a écrit :
>
> When you sell something you need to account for P/L.
> You're missing an account posting for that P/L, the amount of which can be
> left to be automatically calculated by Beancount, for that $124.46
>
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 8:57 PM Damien R. <damien...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an investment in a mutual fund that has been converted from one
> commodity to another. I'm trying to represent that in my ledger with a sale
> of the first commodity (it's a total match sale as everything is sold) and
> then a buy of the second one (that's how it appears on the statement):
>
> 2023-06-21 * "Selling Commodity A"
> Assets:CA:Broker:COMMA -3151.6173 COMMA {} @ 9.361 CAD
> Assets:CA:Broker:Cash 29502.29 CAD
>
> Bean-check gives the following error:
>
> Transaction does not balance: (124.4641276 CAD)
>
> I tried changing the tolerance for that commodity to 0.0001 but no luck
> with that. Any idea what is going on and what I should to to address it?
>
> As I'm dealing with mutual fund issues right now, I'll piggy back on my
> first question and ask what's the state of the average booking method? From
> my understanding it's still not supported and from the documentation I
> couldn't find how I should deal with partial sales, if I want to sale 50%
> of one commodity for instance.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Damien
>
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