"Advanced Portfolio" realized gain/loss

[Jesse C]

Second what Firefly mentioned.  I've had all sorts of report issues if you
move money from an Income account into a security.  Income should always
move into an Asset/Cash account and then into a security.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:03 PM, FireFly <fireflys_98 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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