Unbalanced balance sheet

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Jan 20 17:30:27 EST 2005


Quoting Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jrposting at yahoo.co.uk>:

> The logical solution would be that Gnucash automatically calculates the
> unrealised gains/losses for each share and puts this in, say the equity
> account. The balance sheet shows such a figure, but it is alway 0 for
> me, and is added to the liabilities account.
> 
> Has anyone any thoughts on this?

This is what CVS HEAD is doing..  It's a well-known issue that Gnucash <= 1.8
does not properly account for cap-gains/losses from commodity exchanges.

> Jeff

-derek

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