Unrealized gains: conclusions?

[Mike Alexander]

--On July 7, 2008 8:46:37 AM -0700 Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> So from your and Michael's comments, I think we can add these to the
> list:
>
> 9. Entering unrealized gains is optional and must remain so.
> Therefore use of trading accounts must be optional.

I'm all in favor of making trading accounts optional.  They are a 
global option in my patch, but really should probably be an option 
associated with a specific Gnucash file.  However, I don't think it's 
correct to say that trading accounts record unrealized gains.  They 
record the net conversion between commodities which makes it possible 
to calculate unrealized gains.  This is perhaps a small distinction, 
but I think it is a useful one.

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Mike Alexander           mta at umich.edu
Ann Arbor, MI            PGP key ID: BEA343A6