Chapter 8 - investment accounts

[David T.]

What debate are you referring to? 
There was a discussion about how GnuCash handles multiple splits in a register (which appears to be the debate you mention). This resulted in a note being added to the tutorial at 4.3 to explain that situation. 
As to the question of how to calculate and record gains, every discussion I have seen over the years has suggested that different users have different needs and solutions. Personally, I prefer to have a separate transaction for the gain, and I am satisfied with the scrub lots feature for calculating that gain. 

The docs page you reference is outdated. Perhaps if you navigate from the main site page, you will see a more current version, including screen shots. 
HTH, David 

 
 
  On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 9:57, Jamestk<davidjamestk at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:   Hello again folks,

Revisiting the stock entry debate in case things have been updated. Going
through the help files as before I noticed many of the tutorial images seem
to have been removed, hence my question above.

Example, no screenshots
http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/stock-split.html

It was too onerous using so many entries for just one transaction but hoped
changes maybe afoot.

Cheers and thanks again for such a great program.  

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Jamestk wrote
> Hello folks,
> 
> I don't currently use the double entry method for recording profit/loss on
> stocks and shares for reasons above.
> 
> Every now and then I ponder on other solutions to the problem which may be
> a little more automated than manually entering profit/loss as you, after
> all you have the net figures there, just a case of getting a balance.
> 
> I accept it's probably a whole lot easier to do at the time, but even so
> still a lot of extra data entry/categories required.
> 
> Just revisiting previous posts to remind me of the issues.
> 
> If you look on this snapshot you cane see the sale entry alone appears
> three times, just looking at that makes me dizzy :)
> 
>  
<http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/n4675554/sell.png> 




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