"Advanced Portfolio" realized gain/loss

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I know this has come up before, PERSONALLY, I've had good luck changing the basis calculation method to FIFO, that seemed (for me) to resolve the issue of having dollars in the realized gain/loss when I'd never done anything but buy shares, however I think I recall others saying it did not resolve it for them.

Personally I handle my transactions the following way (which may matter)

Money goes from Income to a "Cash" account for my 401k/investments
Money is used from that "Cash" account to buy shares in the sub-accounts for each investment

I used to find if I had the income directly going into the share sub-accounts it seemed to mess up a number of the reports (although I'm not sure if that is still an issue or not).


Thanks

 
- James Duerr


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 From: "John E. Sterbenz, Jr." <jsterben at umich.edu>
To: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:57 AM
Subject: "Advanced Portfolio" realized gain/loss
 
Is there anything other than a unit sale that would trigger an increase/decrease in "realized gain" as found in the Advanced Portfolio report?

I am tracking several securities in GNUCash and have never sold any of the shares purchased.  There are no brokerage fees, and there's been nothing like splits, reverse splits, etc. for any of them.  Some pay dividends (which are reinvested), some don't (shouldn't matter).  However, nearly all of them report a realized loss (in addition to the unrealized loss, which is also reported).

I'm running GNUCash version 2.4.7 (built from svn r20813 on July 2, 2011) on a 64-bit version of Win7.  I've been using this version for some time, but only recently took the time to add 16 year's worth of end-of-month close pricing data (not knowing that the price calculated when adding transactions didn't end up in the Price Editor as it did in MS Money).  It was analyzing the results of this work on a month-by-month basis via Advanced Portfolio that I identified this.  Any ideas?

Thanks for any insight anyone might have!

John
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