Chapter 8 - investment accounts

[David Carlson]

On 2/1/2015 10:23 AM, Jamestk wrote:
> David, no apology necessary, pinch of salt.
>
> Just to recap -
>
> - A manual calculation is needed to enter a profit or loss
>
> - This leads to two register entries, one for the selling of shares and the
> second to record gain/loss
>
> I thought one way around this would be for the gross purchase to appear as
> an expense with gross sale as income, would this work on a profit and loss
> report?

This would ignore the fact that you were holding an asset or liability 
while the position was open and lead to an incorrect net worth measurement.

> Investment accounts do not seem to be selected in the default settings (P+F
> report), I tried manually clicking on brokerage accounts + sub accounts but
> again, nothing within range.

If you mean Profit and Loss report, only Income and Expense accounts are
selected for that report by design.

> Is it just the categories that appear in reports as opposed to accounts?  

You must be from the Quicken world.  :)   Seriously, GnuCash calls
Incomes and Expenses Accounts, not Categories.  Actually, most reports
do consider Assets and Liabilities.  Only reports designed to show
Income and/or Expense do not.

> Just a thought, although I don't want to waste forum members time on a
> fruitless exercise.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
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Your questions are not a waste of time.

David C