Capital gains

[Karl Anderson]

Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8 at verizon.net> writes:

> On January 4, 2006, I ran into this problem. Derek Atkins replied (in part)
> 
> > Gnucash 1.8 does not handle the automatic processing of
> > capital gains/losses..  So when you sold the shares you
> > didn't account of the income of the gain (or expense of
> > the loss)..  So the balance sheet is off. 

The tutorial in my version of gnucash covers this.  I just imitate the
screenshot there.  I don't really understand why I'm doing it that
way, but the accounts all balance out at the end, and I can understand
where the money comes from and goes to.

In my version, there's a bug or misfeature that changes the source or
destination of some of the splits as you're editing others in the same
transaction, so keep an eye on that.  I've always been able to tell
if I've made a mistake before finishing the transaction because
there's money or stock that needs to be accounted for.

-- 
Karl Anderson      kra at monkey.org      http://monkey.org/~kra/