Chapter 8 - investment accounts

[David T.]

You want to credit the gain to an Income account, not the stock’s parent account. I use Income:Realized Gains. Just change the account on the gain transaction to an income account. And there is no reason to add another transaction to the orphan account; changing the split to an income account should suffice. See section https://lists.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/invest-sell1.html#invest-sellChgCapGainsAcctExample <https://lists.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/invest-sell1.html#invest-sellChgCapGainsAcctExample>

> On Nov 28, 2016, at 6:37 AM, Jamestk <davidjamestk at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> David/Chris, all good, thanks for the replies and your patience.
> 
> One suggestion if I may perhaps for consideration, when a lot is scrubbed to
> produce a capital gain/loss it is the  attributed to the orphaned
> gain/account as described. My initial reaction was to amend to the main
> parent stockbroker account in order to balance at some point, unfortunately
> gains appear as debits and vice versa.
> 
> Of course this is easily corrected by entering an opposing debit in the
> orphaned account which gives the required stockbroker account credit.
> 
> I remember having a similar issue with credit card balances displaying in
> reverse, this was overcome by changes the display settings - is this
> possible for the orphaned gains/losses category?    
> 
> 
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