Re: [GNC] Stock "split" exchanging shares of different currencies?

2020-05-15 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
On 2020-05-15 12:35, John Ralls wrote: Jim, Use plain text with a fixed-width typeface to be sure that the formatting survives the list server. Thank you for the tip. Here are my three examples from my original message of 14. May

Re: [GNC] Stock "split" exchanging shares of different currencies?

2020-05-15 Thread John Ralls
> On May 15, 2020, at 11:48 AM, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: > > > On 2020-05-15 11:21, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> It was difficult to tell from your original post, because the >> tabbing/spacing didn’t quite line up, but I’d say perhaps you have a split >> in the wrong column. (dr/cr, buy/sell— my

Re: [GNC] Stock "split" exchanging shares of different currencies?

2020-05-15 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
On 2020-05-15 11:21, Adrien Monteleone wrote: It was difficult to tell from your original post, because the tabbing/spacing didn’t quite line up, but I’d say perhaps you have a split in the wrong column. (dr/cr, buy/sell— my example above might not line up either, so I added the Dr/Cr labels j

Re: [GNC] Stock "split" exchanging shares of different currencies?

2020-05-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On May 15, 2020 w20d136, at 2:02 AM, Jim DeLaHunt > wrote: > > Adrien: > > > Does it accept you changing the Imbalance split accordingly? > > No. When I change the account Imbalance-CAD to Trading:CURRENCY:USD in that > split, when I save the transaction, GnuCash changes the amount of the

Re: [GNC] Stock "split" exchanging shares of different currencies?

2020-05-15 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Adrien: > Does it accept you changing the Imbalance split accordingly? No. When I change the account Imbalance-CAD to Trading:CURRENCY:USD in that split, when I save the transaction, GnuCash changes the amount of the Trading:CURRENCY:USD split to zero, and adds another Imbalance-CAD of 800.

Re: [GNC] Stock "split" exchanging shares of different currencies?

2020-05-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’m not familiar with GC for stocks and such trades, but just looking at the form of the debits/credits I would hazard the guess that: Imbalance-CAD 800.00 should be: Trading:CURRENCY:USD 800.00 instead. I’m basing this guess on how I see other Trading account related transactions balanced b

[GNC] Stock "split" exchanging shares of different currencies?

2020-05-14 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
I did a curious stock transaction, and I'm having trouble when I record this transaction in GnuCash 3.10. I bought some shares of a fund, DLR.U, which trades in US Dollar prices on the Toronto Stock Exchange. I exchanged those shares for an identical quantity of shares in that fund with a diff