Thanks David. I have used the security to security transfer in a spin-off situation, but for mutual funds, I use the intermediate cash account method for domestic tax rules. I have to adjust both the buy and sale proceeds with some statutory levies before it reflects the net amount in the bank. I don’t want these levies recorded in the fund register because it gets added to other brokerage fees when you run Advanced Portfolio Report.
I am out of ideas on Fred’s original post. Cheers. > On 26 Jul 2026, at 2:50 PM, David T. <[email protected]> wrote: > > Deva, > > There's nothing wrong with transferring directly from one (non-currency) > commodity to another. This is akin to a stock spinoff. > > For the record, if a transaction with multiple commodities (e.g., > transferring dollars to euros) gets copied and you change the amount, GnuCash > pops up the exchange rate dialog, and you get the chance to fix the numbers. > > However, it seems that the necessary exchange rate dialog doesn't trigger > when creating the transaction between two non-currency commodities. You can't > even call up the exchange rate dialog at all; GnuCash claims that the > commodity doesn't support exchange rates. So, there's some underlying logic > that GnuCash applies to these transactions. > > The simple short term fix is to open the transaction in the destination > register, edit the number of shares, and accept the new price that GnuCash > proposes. > > The followup is to file a bug report for future consideration. > > David T. > > > On July 26, 2026 11:32:46 AM GMT+05:30, Deva PS via gnucash-user > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Fred, >> >> I’m not clear as to why the shares bought on 7/26/2026 into VMFXX is showing >> 10,837.70. As you noted, it should be 4,000 instead (the sale proceeds from >> gold etf)? If it’s showing 10,837.70, then perhaps you did a duplicate >> transaction and forgot to modify the shares amount? >> >> Can you try this? I don’t use trading accounts, so when I have a situation >> like you described, I do it as follows: >> >> Don’t combine the sell on gold etf and the corresponding buy on VMFXX in a >> single transaction. >> >> Instead, push the sale proceeds from gold etf into a temporary suspense >> account, say Cash (IRA). >> >> Then record the buy on VMFXX by sourcing funds from the suspense account. >> >> Cheers. >> >>> On 26 Jul 2026, at 8:07 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> From: Fred Tydeman <[email protected]> >>> To: Gnucash Users <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Stock sell/buy >>> Message-ID: >>> <cak1r+o3gy_i8przy5dzk1k9eaprq+-dv1qyj_be2j--2ox_...@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >>> >>> Attached is a screen shot of two transactions where I sold some of an ETF >>> and sent the proceeds to the money market account. >>> The sale on 7/23 shows the money market price as 1.00 (after I manually >>> fixed it). >>> The sale on 7/26 was a test done today to see what it would do. >>> The price and share amount for the money market are wrong. >>> I notice that the money market share amount on 7/26 is the same as on 7/23 >>> (which makes no sense). >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
