7.3. Buying New Investments

Now that you have setup accounts you can enter in your stocks. If you open the account register you will see it looks similar to other account registers but instead of deposit and withdrawal columns it has columns to enter share amounts and their prices.

  1. Start off by filling in the Date and Description fields.

  2. Choose a transfer account to indicate which account was used to pay for buying the stock.

  3. Fill in the number of shares purchased in the Shares column and the price paid for the shares in the Price column.

  4. Enter the total cost of the transaction in the Buy column and then tab or click the Enter button to finish the transaction. insert buytrans.png