[GNC] Balance Sheet Report Broken

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 29, 2018, at 9:12 AM, Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have been using gnucash for many years. I keep my books with the assets
> valued at their purchase price. The cost basis is important when selling
> assets.This is easy for most stocks but some require periodic adjustments
> because of return-of-capital [or similar] events. I have been working with
> version 2.6.12 most recently, and the balance sheets reported correct cost
> basis values for all of my stocks. When I upgraded my Ubuntu systems
> recently, version 2.6.19 was installed.  I now find that neither Balance
> Sheet report is working. The standard reports zero value for the stock if a
> return of capital adjustment was made while the eguile version just ignores
> the adjustment and reports the original purchase value.
> 
> I would greatly appreciate some help in figuring out how to migrate to
> later versions of gnucash.

Don’t jump too fast, that’s https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368>, or rather it’s a side effect of my misunderstanding the problem and making a bad fix. The old average cost behavior will be restored in GnuCash 3.3.

Regards,
John Ralls