Unbalanced balance sheet

[Derek Atkins]

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

> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 17:30 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> > 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.
>
>> 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.
>
> Ah! Any idea when the feature will see the light in a stable
> release/which release it will make?

It was a fairly major report-system update.  The balance sheet (and a
bunch of other reports) were updated.  I doubt it will make any 1.8
release.  But hopefully we'll finish the g2 port soon -- it will be in
the next major release.

> Jeff

-derek

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