0 USD Cost Basis

[MP]

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Let's say I receive some tulips for free. However, the tulip market is doing pretty well, so I then sell those tulips at their market price.

The way I have been recording this in my Beancount file is:

2019-01-01 * "Receive free tulips"
 Income:Gifts
 Assets:Investments:Tulips 12 TLP {0 USD}

 2019-01-02 * "Convert TLP to USD"
 Assets:Investments:Tulips -12 TLP {0 USD} @@ 5 USD
 Assets:Investments:Cash 5 USD

The second transaction yields an error saying that it does not balance.

The reason I have been recording transactions this way is so that Fava always displays TLP in terms of USD. If I leave out the {0 USD} cost basis, then FAVA will not display my TLP holdings in terms of USD.

What is the correct way of handling this situation? Or do I just have to suck up the fact that without a USD cost basis, my TLP won't be shown in terms of USD on Fava?

[Martin Blais]

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2019-01-01 * "Receive free tulips"
Income:Gifts
Assets:Investments:Tulips 12 TLP {0 USD}

2019-01-02 * "Convert TLP to USD"
Assets:Investments:Tulips -12 TLP {0 USD} @@ 5 USD

Assets:Investments:Cash 5.00 USD
Income:Tulips -5.00 USD

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