accounting for stock trades

[Phillip Shelton]

That still does not address where the balancing entry for the gain/loss is =
put. (At least it does not do it for me.)  And I thought that was the point=
 of double entry accounting.  I will admit I am very new to the field of ma=
king money.

Maybe, (And you would lean toward this, Derek?) capital gain is allowed to =
be "unbalanced"? The balancing entry is the reduction of the "hard" asset.

-----Original Message-----
The bug (IMHO) is that gnucash is not tying the purchases to the sales
in order to compute the gain/loss.  I'm not _AS_ convinced that the
gain/loss MUST imply a split to an income/expense account.

-derek

"Phillip Shelton" <shelton@usq.edu.au> writes:

> Is it a bug then that the gain is currently un-balanceable?