Oops - I missed the fact that writing "50 AAPL @ $30" is an entry only for AAPl - it doesn't affect the $. So it appears you need to book the cashflow separately, and can hence refer to a different account ie:
2004/05/01 * AAPL Purchase. Assets:Stocks 50 AAPL @ $30.00 Assets:Trading Account $-1500 Market:Stocks But I'm still interested in how others do this, and whether I need to be manually calculating the total cash. Tim On Apr 24, 12:35 pm, Tim Docker <[email protected]> wrote: > a stock purchase/sale. Is there a convention for this? > > The ledger sample file shows 50 AAPL @ $30, but in that case it's > credited against "Equity", and the manual suggests that the Equity > account should be reserved for initial balances. > > Should I have a new top level account for the market(ie different > to Equity,Assets,Income, and Expenses)? ie something like: > > 2004/05/01 * Investment balance > Assets:Brokerage 50 AAPL @ $30.00 > Market:Stock > > This doesn't feel quite right. What do others do? I guess the > approach would be the same for the purchase of any asset which > has ongoing value. > > Also, is it possible to get the dollars paid and shared received > to go to separate sub accounts? I could do something like: > > 2004/05/01 * Investment balance > Assets:Stocks 50 AAPL @ $30.00 > Assets:Stocks $1500 > Assets:Trading Account $-1500 > Market:Stock > > but it seems messy to have to manually calculate the transfer > amount. > > Any tips or pointers would be appreciated. > > Tim
