"Advanced Portfolio" realized gain/loss

[John Layman]

Yes.  I've edited dividend transactions accordingly and the method does
work. 

 

From: Jesse C [mailto:crimson.corelio at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 6:12 PM
To: john.layman at laymanandlayman.com
Cc: Robin Chattopadhyay; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: "Advanced Portfolio" realized gain/loss

 

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.