I meant no requirement to have a positive share balance. You should be able to have a negative share balance in a security account.
On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 3:37 AM David Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> 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 > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
