Balance sheet doesn't balance

[Willi Tonsern]

On Saturday 27 January 2007 08:01, Stephen Myers wrote:
> Thanks Derek,
>
> I had restructured my portfolio and had "sold" some commodities and
> "bought" some new ones.  Because I was not actually selling I didn't bother
> to look at how to properly account for the "sale".  I went back and split
> the "sale" per the concept guide and that fixed up my problem.
>
> On 1/26/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> > Most likely it means you didn't properly account for unrealized
> > gains/losses
> > when you sold some commodities.
Yes - I would like to do so - but I don't know how.
My base currency is EUR.
Since 4 years I have a CHF account ( both in GnuCash as well as on my bank)
Now I want to switch all CHF's into EUR in order to gain from currency 
conversion. So I open a new EUR account. With a single booking I transfer all 
money from CHF to the EUR account; after setting the actual currency values 
the amount in the EUR account is exactly what it should to be.
On the bank I realized a gain (the difference EUR/CHF in 4 years) but in 
GnuCash I don't know how to book it. Should I book an incoming? Where comes 
the money in from?
thanks for any answers
willi
> > -derek
> >
> > Quoting Stephen Myers <stevem at scn.org>:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been using gnucash for a while now and am starting to make use of
> >
> > some
> >
> > > of the reports.
> > >
> > > I'm looking at my balance sheet and i'm finding that
> > >
> > > assets != liabilities + equity
> > >
> > > Not sure what I've done to mess up the balance sheet, so I though I'd
> >
> > ask
> >
> > > for some ideas of where to look.
> > >
> > > I'm using gnucash 2.0.2
> > >
> > > Thanks.
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