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
