"Advanced Portfolio" realized gain/loss

[Jesse C]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 7:41 AM, John Layman <
john.layman at laymanandlayman.com> wrote:

> There must be something I am missing about this method.  Seems like it
> requires a two-transaction shuttle (from income to asset, from asset to
> investment or cash acct) and still fails to track performance for dividends
> that aren't reinvested (i.e. accumulate in a cash acct.)
>
> This area of GnuCash is so poorly thought out I gave up on tracking
> performance.  It's worth the cost of a Morningstar account not to torture
> myself inventing workarounds in GnuCash.
>
>
If you use the '0' amount method mentioned in a previous email to tag the
security account in the non-reinvested dividend transaction, then you will
correctly see the dividend show up as a realized gain in the Advanced
Portfolio report.