Thanks David - yeah, negative share balances are possible. But it's seemingly not possible to track shares in a Liability account.
On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 2:41 AM David Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
