Balance sheet, stock sale, unrealized gain or loss

[David Brock]

David-

I'd appreciate the notes, patch, or any other information that you have.
I'm having the same problem, and trying to create a fix.

Thanks,

;-David

On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 09:04 -0500, David G Hamblen wrote:
> I was able to make things balance by removing all the numeric-abs 
> functions from the file /usr/share/gnucash/scm/commodity-utilities.scm.
> I then had to fix a potential divide-by zero somewhere around line 390 
> in report-utilities.scm in the same directory.
> 
> I have no idea why average values are being computed using absolute 
> values of the share and cost data, but this fixes it for me.  I also 
> don't understand scheme, etc; so I don't know if my changes impact 
> anything else.
> 
> I've got some notes to myself lying around somewhere (maybe even a 
> patch), which I could try to locate if anyone's interested.
> 
> dave
> 
> 
> Errol Siegel wrote:
> > I have been using GnuCash for many releases and noticed right away that
> > I could not get a balance sheet to balance once I sold any stock.
> > 
> > I am now trying the 2.0 release and I am seeing the same symptoms.
> > 
> > I want to describe again what I have done to make sure that I am not
> > missing something.
> > 
> > I set up an example file where I have a checking account starting
> > balance of $1,000.
> > 
> > I purchase 10 shares of stock at $10 per share out of the checking
> > account.
> > 
> > The next day I purchase 20 shares of stock at $5 per share out of the
> > checking account.
> > 
> > The day after that I sell 13 shares of stock at $4 per share.
> > 
> > If I use the Lot Viewer to "scrub account" then it adds a transaction to
> > account for the $60 loss from selling the initial 10 shares and a
> > transaction to account for the $3 loss from selling 3 shares from the
> > purchase of 20 shares.
> > 
> > I entered entries for this stock manually in the price editor for each
> > of the days that there were transactions (I used the NAV option).
> > 
> > I created balance sheets using all three options for the commodities
> > values.
> > 
> > Weighted average:
> > 
> > This shows the current value of the asset as a weighted average, but
> > does not calculate an unrealized loss at all, so the report does not
> > balance.
> > 
> > Most recent:
> > 
> > This shows the current value of the asset based on the most recent entry
> > in the price editor, but shows the unrealized loss as $56.53 so the
> > report does not balance.
> > 
> > Unless I'm mistaken, the unrealized loss should be $17.  I still have 17
> > of the shares I purchased at $5 per share, but they are now only worth
> > $4 per share.
> > 
> > Nearest in time:
> > 
> > This still shows the current value of the asset based on the most recent
> > entry in the price editor ($68) and it shows an unrealized loss of
> > $56.53.  This is the same as what "Most recent" showed.  I don't
> > understand how these numbers were calculated (or how they were supposed
> > to be calculated).
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong?
> > 
> > 
> 
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