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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