Capital gains

[Derek Atkins]

CVS HEAD should (mostly) auto-track the cap gains for you, tying
'buys' and 'sells' together into lots and computing your actual cap
gains that way.

-derek

David Grant <david.grant at telus.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there is any way to track capital gains for a
> mutual fund account in Gnucash?  I don't really see how it can be done
> at present.
>
> I saw some discussion a while back,
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-devel@lists.gnucash.org/msg04340.html
> but I'm not sure about its status.
>
> I have gnucash fetched from CVS and I'd like to help, although I don't
> know if I have all the skills necessary to help much.
>
> If there are any accounting tricks or workarounds that anyone would
> like to share, that would be cool.  And by the way, I'm talking about
> capital gains when you don't see the whole item or mutual fund or
> stock, whatever.  Like when you buy a mutual fund at many different
> prices, then sell only part of it at some given price.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> -- 
> David J. Grant
> http://www.davidgrant.ca:81
>
>
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