stock sale problems, yet again

[Jannick]

Simon West <s.d.c.west <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> I am using Gnucash 2.2.9, and am having problems recording a stock  
> sale. I have been following the instructions in Section 8.7 of the  
> online manual.
> 
> The thing I can't get to work is the step where you are supposed to  
> record capital gains by using a transaction with the number of shares  
> and the price both set to 0. 

It works in my version by setting the price to 1, no other entry in this line.

> Gnucash simply does not allow me to do  
> this - whenever I try, it sets the number of shares to 1 and the  
> price to the amount of the capital gains. Thus I am left with the  
> incorrect number of shares in the account. A workaround is to simply  
> not record the capital gains at all, which is not ideal (I want to  
> know exactly how much capital gains I have for tax reasons).
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this?

Alternatively you can add the realized capital gains transaction(s) to the sale
transaction. Then in this split transaction you gather all information on the
sale - including fees and taxed if any.

J.