Lots in Account screen : Value sign

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 17 November 2016 11:30:18 Chris Good wrote:
> Re https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770364
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> Currently the Lots in Account screen reverses the sign of the value
> shown in all the splits in the Splits Free and Splits in Lot panels,
> except the first. The reason this was done seems to be that because
> each buy has a unique lot, the first transaction (usually a buy)
> should be +ve and all the other splits in the lot should be sales
> (-ve).
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> This makes the Splits Free panel confusing because it can contain
> splits from multiple buys and sells.
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> I would like to change it so that the changing of the sign is removed
> from both the Splits Free and Splits in Lot panels.
> 
> I.e. Buys: Amount (No of shares) and Value are +ve, Sells: Amount and
> Value are -ve.
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> Does anyone have any further input as to why the signs should be as
> they are or objections to this change?
> 
Just for completeness, the next version of gnucash will already remove this from the Splits Free 
panel as it makes no sense at all there. So the discussion here should focus solely on the Splits 
in Lot part of the lot viewer.

Other than that I don't have an opinion on this. I don't know why this inversion was added and I 
don't use lots for capital gains calculations.

Regards,

Geert