Orphaned Gains Account
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Sep 22 08:37:15 EDT 2006
Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge at xobie.com> writes:
> I am entering my transactions from MS Money into Gnucash (2.01 release
> 14585 under Debian Etch) and am having two problems. Can anyone help or
> point me in the right direction
>
> - Problem 1. In entering a buy or a sell transaction. I open the stock
> account and enter the buy or sell. In checking with the related bank
> account occasionally the entry will occur but no figures are carried
> across
This is probably http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116353
> This seems to fix itself when I close all windows and "Check and Repair"
yep. Except.....
> - Problem 2. When I enter a sale of a share then I get the capital gain
> (or loss) appearing in a new account called Orphaned Gains - Realised
> Gain / Loss
... the C&R does this.
> What I do not understand is that the sell account is totally balanced,
> before this orphan account appears.
The problem is that the C&R process still has the "broken" LOT
support turned on. Are you adding the capital gains/losses as
splits by hand? If not, then no, the account ISN'T balanced.
You've balanced the transaction, but you've not balanced the
gain/loss between the purchase and sale.
The C&R code does (granted erroneously).
> This seems to be the same issue as raised on 23 Jun 06 but I could not
> see how that issue finished
Yeah.. C&R is, umm... not QUITE doing what we want here.
I'll see if I can fix it before 2.0.2.
-derek
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