Chapter 8 - investment accounts

Jamestk davidjamestk at hotmail.co.uk
Mon Nov 28 03:45:28 EST 2016


Thanks David


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> 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 .co

> > 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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