[GNC] Split registering capital gain does not show up in capital gains register

[Ondra Kamenik]

Dear David,

thanks for you answer. What i did was to tick on "trading accounts", 
then i redid both the transactions (actual sell and capital gain), it 
added transactions to newly created trading accounts, and i could see 
the opposite side of the capital gains in its own register. Then i 
ticked off "trading accounts" in the properties, deleted all 
transactions with the trading accounts, solved the orphaned 
transactions, and i had a correct income in the capital gains register, 
and i could also see it.

Now when i add another capital gain zero-stocks zero-price transaction, 
i have the corresponding record in the capital gains register correct, 
and correctly displayed. So i am not able to confirm that your proposed 
way would help. However, i suspect that the problem could have been that 
i got the program into some internally inconsistent state (from the 
snapshot it is clear that the balance of capital gains account did not 
change). By switching "trading accounts" on/off i put it back on tracks, 
your way of jumping between registers and changing the view could have 
had the same effects.

Many thanks again,

0.

On 05/22/2018 02:22 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> Ondra,
>
> I believe you have the correct information recorded but you cannot see 
> it.  In your security register go to your second security sale 
> transaction which records the capital gain income.  Highlight the 
> income line and click 'Jump'.  That puts you in the income account 
> register for the capital gain. Now click on View  > Auto-Split 
> Ledger.  While you are there, also click on View > Double Line.  Now 
> you should see nearly the same thing that you saw in the security 
> register except the total column contains the capital gain income.
>
> Play with those 'View'  settings in your other accounts until you get 
> them all set to your liking.
>
> Good Luck.
>
> David C
>
> On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 1:16 AM, Ondra Kamenik 
> <ondra.kamenik at gmail.com <mailto:ondra.kamenik at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     First of all, let me thank the developers for the amazing work and
>     efforts.
>     GnuCash is exactly what I wanted, i like to be in the driving seat
>     and i
>     don't like software doing things behind the scenes for me. So
>     GnuCash is a
>     perfect match.
>
>     However, GnuCash does not seem to do a basic thing for double entry
>     accounting for the capital gains from selling a stock. I figured
>     out how to
>     write zero-stocks zero-price transaction to register capital gain
>     "out of
>     nothing", but when I look to the opposite side in the capital gain
>     register, the transaction is there, but it has empty Charge/Income
>     cells
>     and it does not increase the balance.
>
>     See my screenshots attached. Don't get confused with the first
>     transaction
>     from opening balances, the account is in Czech crowns, so there some
>     unusual numbers. Capital gains account is in USD, the new price is
>     in USD.
>
>     Out of desperation, i created a minimalistic example, similar to
>     what is in
>     the concepts manual about selling a stock with capital gains.
>     Everything
>     works smoothly in the small example. See screenshots attached.
>
>     I am using 2.6.18. Rev 3a9fbb8+ on 2017-09-27. The same behavior is on
>     Linux as well as Mac. [We don't have windows in our house].
>
>     any help greatly appreciated.
>
>
>     0.
>
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