Accounting for Capital Gain when Selling Shares

[David Carlson]

On 11/29/2013 3:23 AM, coolnodje wrote:
> I was about to write that there's no way I could get an empty Share and
> Price at the same time when I finally managed!
>
> The trick is to FIRST delete Shares AND Price from your split, and THEN
> enter your Debit/Credit.
>
> It looks obvious but I really struggled to get this to work!
>
> As a side remark, an odd thing is the column naming: it's mostly
> different from what appears in the doc [ Tot Shares, [blank], Tot Buy,
> Tot Sell, Balance ]
> I've only seen the latter once, most of the time I get:[ Shares, Price,
> Debit, Credit, Balance ], which led me to think that maybe I wasn't in
> the same section as talked about in the doc.
>
> Thanks for your quick answer
> /nodje
>
>> John Ralls <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us>
>> 29 November 2013 04:38
>>
>> It’s important that there’s *no* entry in the shares field, Not 0,
>> *nothing*.
>> Otherwise Gnucash won’t recognize that the split shouldn’t affect the
>> share count.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
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Watch carefully as you move around the transaction.  The column titles
change depending on which row you are in. ;)

David C