>>>>> On 24 Apr 2000 11:06:41 -0500, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> said:
Rob> Second, this seems a little messy. What if you have bought and
Rob> sold a stock 10 times over the past 5 years, and most of the
Rob> sells were only fractional (say you needed some cash for
Rob> something), and were never a significant amount of any one
Rob> purchase, and now the stock splits. Don't you now have to figure
Rob> out what your total current number of shares by hand across all
Rob> of those transactions to be able to enter the split transaction?
Rob> That seems much harder on the user than just entering
Rob> ("2000-01-01" split mega-corp 2.0)
Rob> and letting the engine figure it out. Further, if you made some
Rob> mistake in entering data before the split, whenever you make any
Rob> changes, you'll be required to manually update *all* of the
Rob> subsequent "stock split adjustment" transactions...
Rob> Given this, unless we think of a better way, I'm still leaning in
Rob> favor of running share totals...
running share totals does sound better, I think.
Also, remember that stock is way different than cash in that you have
"some bought then", and "some bought way back when", when you sell.
You have to know _which_ shares you are selling, to determine how much
of a profit there is. Also, before this gets implemented, I think
there should be some thought put into stock options, for we may end up
redoing a lot of work after we finish this part, and then move on to
stock options.
rob
--
Gnucash Developer's List
To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
