[GNC] Capital losses in Advanced Portfolio Report

Wm wm_o_o_o at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Nov 2 13:08:46 EDT 2018


On 21/10/2018 11:18, José A. Fernández Troncoso wrote:
> Yes, when I create a sale transaction on the stock, a capital loss is
> calculated automatically by the report and shown as a negative amount in
> the Realized Gain column. That's fine by me.

It presumes a tax regime, unfortunately.

> The problem is that when I add a split to record the loss manually on
> the Expenses:Capital Loss acount, the amount recorded on the stock
> acount split (in the Total Sell column) is then added to the Income
> column of the report, as if it were a dividend.

The general problem is that the report presumes you are merkin and have 
few external tx

The other way is to go for Trading Accounts, but that means thinking
-- 
Wm






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