Fw: Re: Stock spinoff

[Paul Schwartz]

I forgot to send this to the list. :-(

--- On Fri, 4/10/09, Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Stock spinoff
To: "Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com>
Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 10:37 AM

It started with a post to this list about the Balance Sheet in April of 2008. After some back and forth with Derek, I thought I posted a bug, but I can't find reference to it when I log in to launchpad. They don't seem to have many bugs in their history list.

Bottom line: I can't find a reference to it. I'm sure I can create a simple data file that would reproduce the problem. That's what I did last time. Would that help?

Paul

--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Stock spinoff
To: "Paul Schwartz" <pmjs1115 at yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 9:03 PM

On Thu, Apr 9,
 2009 at 7:28 PM, Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at yahoo.com> wrote:

I went back and looked at it again, and it turns out that the Balance Sheet is adding the number to the basis of the original stock instead of subtracting it. I had filed a bug report on this previously, and I thought it had been fixed.


Guess not. Has it been fixed in the latest release?

Which bug # is it? 

Paul

-Charles 

--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Stock spinoff

To: "Paul Schwartz" <pmjs1115 at yahoo.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org

Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 6:24 PM

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at yahoo.com> wrote:




I know I'm using an old version fo Gnucash [2.2.4 which is what Ubuntu supplies for release 8.04], but I'ld like to know if the following is fixed in the latest release.



I have a stock account with a certain number of shares and a value [basis].  The stock spins off some shares of another company without changing the number of shares in the original company. The account register for the original company shows that value is decreased [Sell] by the value of the new shares, but the balance sheet does not reflect this new reduced basis [clearly a bug].



I can't think of any bug report (or bug fix) that mentions this situation. Could you show your transaction so we can see the splits? (Or make up a similar example.)


Cheers,Charles



Thanks for help.



Paul