Shares trading

[stewartbaillie]

Hi, can someone give a simple explanation on how to recognise purchase, vacation and sale of shares.

[stewartbaillie]

sorry, valuation not vacation

[p4unger]

Manager does not have a dedicated module for handling the accounting for equity shares and not every user agrees on how to best handle it, but this topic may provide you some ideas;

Stock Purchases

How do you record stocks purchased by the company?

(Most users have also tended to refer to equity shares as “stock” so if you do a forum search try subbing “stock” for “shares” and you should find more results).

[AJD]

The discussion in this thread may assist you.

Just getting started - Thank you, everyone!

Long-time GnuCash user, all-around double-entry bookkeeping nerd here (yes, we exist, I’ve even made videos about the topic, god help me.) I’ve been playing with Manager Desktop all day and am really impressed with the thought, care, and polish that went into the product. A big part of getting bootstrapped here was reading these forums, which do a good job of explaining some of the rationales behind some of the decisions (particularly with respect to the splitting of receipts and payments, and t…

Note post number 5 in which the developer has indicated that an “investment module” is planned that will cater for share investments

[Patch]

This one

Just getting started - Thank you, everyone!

New Investments tab is coming into Manager later this year. It will allow to track purchase and sales of securities and will automatically calculate realized gains on first-in-first-out basis. The workaround that @AJD is proposing will work but it’s a lot of hassle to create separate inventory item for each purchase of securities. Investments tab will be proper solution.

[ashepherd]

Thank you so much this will be very helpful that you are working on making this seamless for us. An investment tab would be great and provide us with the solution. I cannot wait for this integration. Thank you for listening to our needs.

[stewartbaillie]

thank you. appreciate your response.

[stewartbaillie]

Good afternoon Patch. Are you able to provide an update on the roll out of the “Investments Tab” I have a busy Trust Account, and I’m really keen to transfer fully to manager.IO.

Thank you

[Patch]

@stewartbaillie

Patch. Are you able to provide an update on the roll out of the “Investments Tab”

No I am just a user not part of NG Software.

[stewartbaillie]

Hi, can we have an update on the share trading module roll out

[Omnipotent.inc]

Still there is no Update on Investment Module @stewartbaillie from @lubos.
Any update will be posted on forum.so stay connected on forum for updates.

[p4unger]

If you meant to reply specifically to me, I cannot; I am just a fellow user and not affiliated with the company that produces Manager.