Check and Repair adds Orphaned Gains
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Jun 23 11:10:56 EDT 2006
Robert Ramsdell <rcriii at ramsdells.net> writes:
> I just successfully compiled 1.9.8 (svn r14412) on my Ubuntu Dapper
> system (The wiki page for compiling on Breezy was great help, I only had
> to add a few other packages). So thanks everyone for that.
>
> On a lark I tried the Check and Repair function. All looked well except
> that it created a new account called "Orphaned-Gains-USD", with a very
> large balance. In that account are realized gains transactions for a
> large number of stock and mutual fund sales. The problem is, I already
> had realized gain/loss transactions for many of those sales (I've found
> a few that I didn't do this for), the few of which I've checked match
> exactly the sums of the new transactions. An Example:
>
> Date Description(Transfer) Shares Price Buy Sell Balance
> 10/24 open(equity:cost basis) 133 20.11 2675 133
> 6/6 sale (Split) -133 8.05 1071 0
> 6/6 (Inc:real:stock) 1604 0
> 6/6 (Orphaned Gains-USD) 1604 0
> ^^^ This last added by Check and Repair ^^^^
>
> Is this a Check and repair bug?
Huh. I thought we had turned off the cap-gains code..
-derek
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