On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 9:04 AM Alen Šiljak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:43:35 UTC+2, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >> >> >> When you get money back, your cost basis will go down. > > > Oh, OK. So the reference price is my cost basis. Now I understand why "5 USD". > >> >> Anyway, if you just know you get XXX money, and you know how much you >> paid originally (1000) and how many shares you own (100), you could do: >> >> 2019-04-01 * Return of capital >> Assets:Investments:Broker:Cash XXXX USD >> Assets:Investments:Broker:Shares:IPE 100 IPE {{1000-XXXX USD} >> [2000-01-01] @@ (1000-XXXX) USD >> Assets:Investments:Broker:Shares:IPE -100 IPE {{1000 USD} [2000-01-01] >> @@ (1000-XXXX) USD >> > > This would work if I only have the paid amount. > > In this specific case, the ruling (fortunately) refers to "IPE paid returns > of capital of 3.5 cents per share on 16 September 2014 and 1.75 cents per > share on 14 April 2015". > Hence, using the first example, I'd simply subtract 0.035 from the purchase > price (and 0.0175 for the second instance). > > In case of multiple prior purchases I could create one entry, using the > calculated average share price on the day of event, I guess. > Fantastic, thank you! >
I've been following this discussion even though I'm not really playing with any kind of stocks or commodities. Your ledger is a tool for YOU - - - so you write something that makes good sense to you. Then you use reports to dig out the information to keep the boffins happy - - - your books aren't for them!!!! So accurate input and then careful extraction of the relevant data needed for any report - - - and everyone's happy (I hope - - - :-) !). The very very good thing is that ledger is incredibly flexible and quite accommodating so you may find that there are a number of different ways to 'do' something - - - and a 'correctly worded query' using your particular systems, produces 'good' information. That's what good records are all about. Regards -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
