Lots documentation

[Yogesh Agrawal]

Hi Daniel,
See the mailing list chain that started on march 31 with the subject
" Question about Lots and Capital Gains ". It will give you more idea about
it.

Thanks,
Yogesh

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Daniel Hannum <daniel.hannum at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've been using GnuCash for many years and I've been managing without lots
> support for most of that time. I've been doing what the concepts guide
> still
> says to do and make the big transaction when I sell in which I set the
> price
> to 0 in order to record the capital gain/loss. (I think this was a
> necessary
> hack)
>
> http://www.gnucash.org//docs/v2.0/C/gnucash-guide/invest-sell1.html
>
> My question is now with the shiny new lots support, do I still have to do
> this? How can I switch from the old to new way of doing it? I wasn't able
> to
> find any documentation on the lots system except for this wiki entry. It
> sounds great, but doesn't offer any real getting started help.
>
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Concept_of_Lots
>
> For example:
> 1. If I buy shares, what transaction should I put in? Is it what's in the
> concepts guide or something else?
> 2. What about when I sell? Do I still need the complex transaction?
> Doesn't
> the lot system compute the capital gain/loss for me?
> 3. What will happen to my old transactions? I read about a "Scrubber" that
> will turn them into lots, but I don't know what I do with them once they
> are
> lots.
>
> I'm really happy for lots support, but alas I don't know how to use it!
>
> Dan
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