Question about Lots and Capital Gains

Charles Day cedayiv at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 23:58:14 EDT 2008


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Yogesh Agrawal <agrawaly at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Rich Bloch <richbl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for the info Charles.
> > >
> > > I cannot repro the situation that you describe.
> > >
> >
> > Here's what I recall in a little more detail:
> > 1. Open the stock account's register.
> > 2. Enter a stock buy of 4 shares @ $2 on day 1.
> > 3. Enter a stock buy of 10 shares @ $3.50 on day 2.
> > 4. Enter a sell of 6 shares @4.10 on day 3, with no splits for capital
> > gains.
> > 5. Actions->View Lots
> > 6. Click Scrub Account.
> > 7. View Lots shows Lot 0 with 4 shares (all sold), and Lot 1 with 10
> > shares
> > (2 sold, 8 remaining).
> > 8. The stock account's register shows two new transactions for the
> > capital
> > gains: one for the 4 shares sold from Lot 0, and one for the 2 shares
> > sold
> > from Lot 1.
> >
>
> Hi Charles, Is there is way to  put these in a reports , that  is a
> Capital Gain/Loss reports
>

I'm afraid that I must plead complete ignorance of how GnuCash lots work.
All I know is contained in this thread, and comes from just playing with the
GUI, . However I wouldn't mind taking up the investment code once I finish
with the few important bugs remaining in the QIF importer (most of which
deal with investments).

-Charles


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