Orphaned Gains Account

[Henry Bremridge]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 08:37:15AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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
> 
Could be, will check again this evening but the account file should be just
one currency: USD (as opposed to locale of GBP). In some of the reports GBP
is appearing, not sure why..

> >     This seems to fix itself when I close all windows and "Check and
> >     Repair"
> 
> yep.  Except.....
> 
C+R does fix it but sometimes it helps if I delete the transaction, C+R and
then re-enter.

> > -   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.
> 
Yes, capital gains / losses were entered by hand. I have not used the LOT
support at all (not sure how it worked). (In passing I initially HATED the
manual calculation of capital gain but now I love the idea of actually
seeing the underlying figures)

> 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.
> 
Thanks!

Just out of interest, can anyone point me to where I can read on the
following topics as they apply to Gnucash
-   Lots (and the commands scrub and scrub all)
-   Check and Repair
(I could not find either on the gnucash website)

--
Henry
Fri Sep 22 15:16:30 BST 2006

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