I believe there is no restriction to have a positive number of shares of a security. After all, it is common to sell stock short (Against the box) or not.
David Carlson On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 2:48 AM dann frazier <da...@dannf.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out the right way to represent a non-currency > debt in gnucash. That is, I'd like to be able to record that I *owe* > 20 shares of FooFund. I thought I'd just create a Mutual Fund > Liability account, but apparently Mutual Funds and Liabilities are > mutually exclusive. Is that restriction by design? > > One of the reasons I want to do this is for a college fund. I'd like > to keep track of the fund value in an account, but also "keep it off > the books" in a sense when it comes to Asset vs. Liability > calculations, as I consider it both something I have and something I > owe. I tried doing this by creating an Asset account and a Liability > account that grow together, and cancel each other out, but I couldn't > get that to work since it won't let me make the Liability a security. > Is there a better way to do this? > > -dann > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.